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THE PHYSIC POWER OF A GOD WITHIN. 



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By 
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Copyrighted July 29, 1903 

BY 

AKCHIE JOHNSON INGER. 




ARCHIE JOHNSON INGER. 



To those who are willing to lay aside all prejudices 
and superstitions, to those who are constantly reach- 
ing out for the better and the higher in life, this book 
is respectfully dedicated by, 

THE AUTHOR. 



THE PSYCHIC POWER OF A GOD WITHIN. 



Chapter 1. 


Adam and Eve. 




2. 


The Soul 




3. 


The Spirit. 




4. 


Thoughts. 




5. 


Your Psychic Powers. 




6. 


How to Prevent Old Age. 




7. 


The Spirit World. 




8. 


God. 




9. 


The Spirit Before Birth. 




' 10. 


Unreasonable Things. 




' • 11. 


The Spirit Home. 




' 12. 


Polygamy. 




' 13. 


Love and Fancy. 




• 14. 


Reincarnation. 




' 15. 


Music and Flowers. 




' 16. 


"Believe and Be Saved." 




" 17. 


Things Are As We Make Them. 




' 18. 


Death, or What is Called Death. 




' 19. 


Clairvoyance and Dreams. 




' 20. 


False Modesty. 




' 21 


Card Playing. 




' 22. 


The Downfall of the Spirit. 




' 23. 


A Personal God. 




' 24. 


The Power of Thought. 




' 25. 


A Young Man's First Duty. 




' 26. 


The Word of Wisdom. 




' 27. 


Universal Love. 




« 28. 


Marriage. 




< 29. 


Fear and Courage. 




' 30. 


Wrinkles With Old Age. 




' 31. 


Food of Life. 




' 32. 


The Spirit Food. 



PREFACE. 

After studying and using my own psychic 
powers for some time, thinking it was a 
power that had been gifted to me, and to me 
only, I at last became curious and wondered 
what this power could be, wherein I used it, 
and how, and in what way I was different 
from others. 

But after looking this up and giving it a 
thoroughly good examination I found that I 
was gifted with a power; but that that power 
was not only within myself, but that every 
living man or woman possessed this same 
power. Only in most of them it was lying 
uncultivated and dwindling away to a mere 
speck. I found that as Jesus said "God is 
within you. ' ' I found that this God could do 
anything, only we must give him the chance. 

Then, to make sure that I was right and 
that every man had this same power, I told 
others about it and my own methods. They 
could do all of these things in a very short 
time, they could .do what I did, proving to 
me that all were equal and that all were ruled 

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by this power, by this God power, the 
planets, the atmosphere, and all the inhabit- 
ants of the planets. 

After looking around me I found that, 
out of every hundred human beings, there 
was about one who could be termed perfect- 
ly healthy. They all had something wrong 
with them and T wondered how it was. With 
the assistance of my psychic powers, I found 
out the reason. It was this, that man had 
failed to learn himself, he had been growing 
up one sided, cultivating those parts which 
could be seen by the naked eye and, leaving 
the others uncultivated. I found that he had 
made a botch out of it all. 

Then I wondered why we all got old and 
in such a short time, and if old age were one 
of nature's laws. I found out that it was 
contrary to nature to get old and, that it was 
caused always by the same thing. Man had 
failed to learn himself. While I never before 
believed in perpetual youth, I now know it 
to be so, that by using these psychic powers 
perpetual youth can be obtained. I have 
proved it to be the case. I have found out 
more than that. I found that even death as 



we consider it, can be checked and stopped 
by the cultivation of these powers. I found 
that death is unnatural. All these things I 
have proved beyond a doubt to myself and to 
others before I ever wrote a line* of this book. 

Then, after making this my study I 
thought it no more than my duty to give this 
knowledge to others, or to help do all that 
was in my power in spreading this science, 
the science of man himself, to man. 

The only way I could do this was to 
write this book, which is only a small begin- 
ning. I hope that all will read it for that 
purpose, to take the good there is in it. I > 
did not write it to let people know about my 
pow T ers or my good qualities, as I am no more 
than any one else; but I am witling to try 
and this book is for that purpose. It is to 
change the ways of people and to alleviate 
some of the suffering at the present time. 

I hope this book will bring the happiness 
to all who read it that this science has 
brought to me. and to others in whom I am 
concerned. 

The Author. 



INTRODUCTION. 

This book deals with the psychic powers 
of man, and in order for you to grasp its 
meaning, you must lay aside all prejudices, 
for a man's power is limited only by his be- 
lief. If you will not allow yourself to be 
lieve things that are somewhat different from 
those you have believed before, your power 
will always be the same, you will never be 
able to do greater things than you have al- 
ways done. 

I call the study of man, true spiritualism, 
and as I call true spiritualism the study of 
man, it is my object here to take away those 
old superstitions that have always existed in 
regard to spiritualism, and to show you the 
truth in regard to this science, the science of 
man. 

I do not deal here much with the spirit 
world, as I will speak more of that in the 
next book, which will be called "The Second 
Book of the Psychic Powers" or "God With- 
in Man;" but I want to give the means of 
progressing the spirit while yet in the flesh. 

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I want to show up the powers of man and 
what man really is, and the causes of all the 
horrible disasters we are bringing upon our- 
selves every day. I want to show up the 
power of the mind and its different effects 
upon our bodies and upon the bodies of 
others. I have proved it to be the truth, 
and, that with all these powers cultivated, 
we can do what we wish, we can bring suc- 
cess in every way to ourselves. 

I have proved that by living according 
to nature we can find that fountain which all 
people so desire, that fountain for which 
Ponce de Leon so long searched, the fountain 
of perpetual youth, for that fountain is 
nothing more than the fountain of knowl- 
edge, the knowledge of one's self. 

Then, if I believe in perpetual youth, I 
do not believe in death as it is considered to- 
day. I say that death is contrary to the laws 
of nature, that it can be stopped, and that we 
can be changed by the twinkling of an eye to 
a body of a higher form, instead of throwing 
our bodies away, as we do at the present 
time. In this book I speak upon a number 
of subjects mainly those which I think are 

most abused and which I mean to reach the 

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same end. The reason I speak of these is 
because such thoughts as are discussed in 
these subjects degrade you and stop your 
progression; and there are more of them that 
need discussion. In order for you to get 
them you must get one of my small books 
called: "The Creation of Man," one for 
men, the other for women, which teaches 
girls the deception of men and the purity of 
both sexes. 

Now, about the first thing you will say 
is. that these things are contrary to the 
Bible; but if that is what you think look the 
New Testament square in the face and see 
whether they are or not. Others will say 
these are not in the Bible; but are we going 
to just take what is there and nothing else, 
when there is no end to our progression? 

You would soon get through and there 
would be no need of your existing forever, 
besides, the Bible tells you to accept the 
good of everything and throw the rest aside, 
that is all I ask. 

This book is written in very plain 
language so that every one can understand 
its meaning and the meaning I intend to con- 
vey. This is for every one who wishes toac- 

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cept it and as every one has not attained the 
same education through some cause or other, 
it is written so that all can understand it. If 
any one who reads it, reads it to pick it to 
pieces, pick it to pieces to me, for no one 
but a coward would shoot a man in the 
back. So if you want to pick this to pieces, 
do it in a way that I may find it out. 

Then, you might get the Understanding 
by some of the things in this book that I 
think myself perfect and better than you are. 
I do not claim to be that which I think a man 
should be; but I say I will be thus before I 
complete my work. I say things as I mean 
them whether it hits you or not, I say it and 
I do not care to polish up my meaning so that 
it can be taken in a hundred different ways. 
Neither do I try to make these subjects so 
that they will please everyone who reads 
them, by putting them in a way that each one 
could change it to suit himself, to suit his 
own disposition and ways of living. 

If we were all perfect there would be no 

need of reading so I put these subjects here 

just as I want them to be taken, and I hope 

they will be taken so, accepting the good and 

throwing aside the bad. 

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ADAM AND EVE. 



As long as there has been a Bible, like all 
other books, it has been much misunderstood. 
Everyone who reads the Bible has a different 
conception of its meaning. But the one 
thing that seems to bother nearly all Bible 
readers is the Adam and Eve question. 

My ideas, coming from a different source, 
of course vary from all others. I will express 
my ideas for the benefit of those who are 
willing to agree with me in them, as it is 
necessary in order to make the facts which 
will be explained further on, better under- 
stood. 

Science tells us that, at one time the 
whole world was a hot mass, or ball of fire, 
which, if investigated, looks reasonable. So, 
if the earth was at one time a hot mass, it 
certainly must cool off before any living 
creature would be able to inhabit it — the 
lower form of animals first, the better or 
higher afterwards. If such is the case, man, 
being the highest form of life, would neces- 
sarily be the last created. 

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It seems natural and accordant with rea- 
son that the first man would not be as the 
man today, he would be more like an animal 
than a man, he would have the form of a 
man; but he would be a man without thought, 
a man without the vital forces, because it is 
no more than natural that the first man 
would be imperfect. 

Adam and Eve were the first creation of 
a real man and woman, they were the first to 
have thought, to know that they knew what 
they knew, they were the first to have the 
vital forces, they were the first created in the 
image of God. They were the first created in 
the image of God, because they had the 
power of God within them. 

All they needed was to find out that they 
had this power of God, or good, use it, and 
cultivate it so that it could be used. The 
lower form of man had his form, but they 
were not created in the image of God, be- 
cause God has power, God is power of 
thought, of the vital forces which are ruled 
by thought, cultivated by thought. 

In order to be made in the image of God, 
one must have the powers of God, and be 

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able to do what God does, by cultivating the 
God power within you. 

Eve was the first to find out that she had 
these powers, that she could use them by 
cultivation. She saw Adam also had these 
powers, so she convinced him of the truth and 
in so doing tempted him. How could she do 
otherwise ? She could not convince him of 
the truth without tempting him. 

Then Gocl said, or the power of God said: 
" You shall die." Why ? Because they did 
not know death before, they did not know or 
understand it but the power of God told them 
that the body of clay could only develope so 
far and live. 

It must change, leaving the old to die, 
and it must take up a higher body, higher 
than the one of clay, that after a certain stage 
must change and die. 

If the powers were left uncultivated they 

would dwindle away and the body would die 

of old age. Then if letting the powers go 

uncultivated would cause death by old age, 

the cultivation of them would cause death in 

a higher form. The body of clay could be 

changed by the twinkling of an eye to a body 

of a higher form. This will be explained 

after awhile. 

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THE SOUL. 



It is generally thought that the soul and 
the spirit are the same thing. There is a 
great difference between the soul and the 
spirit. They are entirely different and sepa- 
rate from each other. The soul is the life of 
every living creature; everything that lives 
has a soul; but everything has not a spirit. 

The soul is the cause of life, it moves 
along in the veins together with the blood 
and forces the blood through the veins. It 
is not the heart that rushes the blood through 
the body but the soul. The soul is composed 
of magnetism or personal electricity taken 
from the air. 

Whenever there is an ache or sickness of 
any kind, it is caused by the lack of life or 
soul in the parts that are affected. It is be- 
cause they do not understand how to use 
their soul and transfer or force it through 
the affected parts. This leaves those parts 
to wither and die. 

You do not possess this soul power to let 
it go neglected and to lessen until the body 

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dies with old age. You who possess the 
power to reason should cultivate this power 
until it consumes the flesh and turns it into 
soul. Cultivate it until the body developes 
into life instead of part life and part clay. 
You were not born to dwindle away and die 
less and with less power than you had when 
you were born. If such was the case you 
would not have been born at all. 

You were born with part clay and part 
soul to live and to make every day better and 
to give more power to the soul until the body 
of clay would turn into one life, life that 
could never die. Then there would be no 
death, the old body would be changed for a 
new one that w 7 as all life, one that could not 
die. 

Under these conditions, the spirit would 
have something to take with it and to do its 
work, instead of your dying with less power 
than you began with, thus leaving the spirit 
weak and almost powerless, leaving it with 
thousands of years of hard work, to develope 
a perfect soul after death, to do work un- 
finished on this earth, leaving it" to do work 
that you could have done in a few years by 

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proper living and ways of living and doing. 

What is life the way it is lived ? To be 
born, spend all the time in worldly pleasures, 
or for what you eat and drink, leaving your- 
self to dwindle away to nothing, yes, to even 
death; dying like an animal. You human 
beings, endowed with reasoning powers, a 
body, a soul and a spirit, leaving yourselves 
to die as an animal and be forgotten. 

You leaving a spirit without soul enough 
to do its work but to do this w r ork you should 
have done while you had something to do it 
with. 

What would have been the use of your 
having been created if all there was to do 
was to live and enjoy a few years of what you 
would call pleasure and then to die and be 
nothing more ? Common sense, if it is used, 
teaches differently. It shows that as long as 
there is life there is something to be done 
with that life, and as long as you are endowed 
with reason don't disgrace it enough not to 
use it. 

Make every day you live give you more 
life instead of less, until you will at last go 
to a higher place of development, with a 

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grand spirit and a fully developed and power- 
ful soul. 

This soul can, by proper thoughts, be 
developed to such a degree that there is 
nothing impossible for it to accomplish. It 
can grant every wish, can bring back the life 
to someone that is dead, in fact, there is 
nothing impossible, as is shown in the life of 
Christ. 

Of course, you can not expect to do this 
in one day, neither was the earth made in one 
day, nor can it be done without work; but it 
is worth it. 

Do you stop to think one moment why do 
I get old ? Is not there something to prevent 
it ? Is it nature to be born just to live a year 
or two and then wither up and die ? Or is 
there something better, higher for me to 
reach out to than a miserable old age ? Jesus 
says : " Study and learn thyself." He says 
to study and learn thyself first. Are you 
doing it ? No. If you were you would not be 
getting old. You spend years of hard work 
in school, studying every other thing but the 
most important one : you do not learn your- 
self. 

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Men will spend a life study on some ant, 
some animal, or bird and have not one 
thought towards themselves. They learn the 
peculiarities of an ant or some other insect, 
and what becomes of it. Their life on this 
earth is gone, they get old and die. they are 
forgotten, they have done no real good to 
themselves or to anyone else but they die 
very smart. They know all about an ant or 
a honey bee and not one thing about them- 
selves. They are good Christian people. 
They go to church and hear that Jesus, the 
one they worship has said : " Learn thyself 
first.'' Yet their children are going to a 
school that teaches everything else but them- 
selves; And when they do that they are going 
to hell as fast as they can and not one step 
towards their aim, heaven. 

They die, they find out they know noth- 
ing, they find themselves almost equal to an 
animal, they find themselves in hell instead 
of where they should have been, in heaven. 
Because there is one thing that is impossible 
to crush out and that is memory. So could 
they be in heaven and remember their lost 
opportunities ? Is there any other hell but 

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the hell of the mind ? Is there any other 
heaven but the heaven of the mind ? Is 
there any other heaven but to find that you 
are powerful and great and still growing 
greater; to find that you have seized all the 
opportunities that crossed your path ? And 
so, if that is heaven, strive for it. 



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THE SPIRIT. 



The spirit is light, it is composed of 
thought and reason, in fact, the only thing 
that is capable of reasoning. The body is 
just its machine with which it works, the 
soul, its power. Allow your thoughts to run 
in an immoral way, and it will degrade your 
spirit and lessen the power of your soul. 
With a weak soul the spirit has no power 
either over your own body or that of anyone 
else. Divine thoughts and refinement give 
strength and refinement to the spirit and 
power to the soul. 

If people realized the harm done by one 
immoral thought they would never allow 
their minds to run in that direction; but that 

is where the harm comes, there is no one who 
has 'learned himself,' consequently there is 
no one who can follow the laws of his own 
creation. But he is left to suffer the conse- 
quences afterwards, with bitter remorse in 
hell. 

Therefore, direct your thoughts in a 
right way, and build up your spirit. Have a 

spirit composed of divine thoughts and a 

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powerful soul with which to do its work. 
Have a spirit of which you can be proud, and 
with which you can do some good in the 
world, instead of letting yourself drift down 
to nothing until you, or your spirit is forced 
to leave your body to return to dust. If your 
body was supposed to return to dust you 
would never have had one. 

You took a body to make something out 
of it, something better than it was to begin 
with. You were never supposed to return it 
back to dust. At first you had a spirit, you 
had part soul, and part clay, the greater part 
being soul. If that were not so the soul 
would not have had power enough to keep life 
in the dead clay as it does, the clay would die; 
but you see in that, like everything else, the 
greater predominates. When I say you I 
mean your spirit, for your body is not you, 
only your machiue. 

Well, you or your spirit, was supposed 

to take complete control of that body and 

soul and not let it take control over you. 

You were supposed to cultivate that soul of 

yours and make it greater and stronger until 

you could gradually turn the lesser half of 

your body, the clay, into soul so, that it would 

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be all soul. Then you would have a magnetic 
body to dwell in, one that could never die. 
That is what I mean when I say, leave the 
old clay on and take up a more perfect one 
with which to do its work. When you have 
done this, you have completed your mission 
on earth, that is, in this body and that is 
what is called this earth. 

So then, instead of dying, leaving your 
friends to mourn your death, you could say: 
"Good-bye, I am going to take up a higher 
work." They congratulate you, and you 
could go down or dematerialize. That would 
be called, changed by the twinkling of an eye. 

If, at any time, yon felt as if you would 
like to come back, you could do so; material- 
ize, or make your body a light color so that 
it could be seen, greet your friends, dema- 
terialize and go again. This has been proved 
to you by Jesus. He did it. 

They thought him dead. They buried 
him. But on the third day he took his body 
and came out. Do you suppose he took a 
body of clay and came out with it? Do you 
suppose he could take this body of clay and 
go up out of sight? If such had been the 
case he would have allowed Mary to touch 

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him, but he did not. Why? Because one per- 
son takes magnetism from another by touch- 
ing them just the same as he takes electricity 
from a wire by touching it. 

Had Jesus allowed Mary to touch him, 
he would have gone invisible to her sight be- 
cause she would have taken his magnetism, 
and it very likely would have killed her be- 
cause it would have been too much for her. 

Now, this body of magnetism you must 
have, and if you would rather get it after 
death, all right; but it will take you thous- 
ands of years to get it because you will have 
to take a little here and a little there from 
whomever you can, until you get your mag- 
netic body. You must have it before you 
progress any higher. Then you will see 
what hell means when you remember this, 
when you remember your lost time. 

People can, by low thoughts, or by al- 
lowing their thoughts to run in an immoral 
way, feeling badly, or by any way giving the 
body too. much control, crush out the spirit, 
leaving their body without a power with 
which to reason. What is the result? He is 
insane. He has a body without a spirit. 

The body lives on until the soul dwindles 

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away, till it gets the lesser half, and then 
the body dies. He can come back and take 
what soul is left and drag on a thousand 
years perhaps before he gains his lost time. 

Then you wonder why and say: "If 
there are spirits, why don't they show them- 
selves?" What do you expect of them in the 
condition they are left, in the condition you 
are living today? There are only a very few 
who are in a fit condition to manifest much, 
and you would not allow them to do so if 
they so desired. You would run away and 
call them "spooks," "evil spirits," and soon, 
when they came to lead you in the right way. 
so that you would have an easier path to 
follow. 

You can fit yourself, if you so desire, so 
that you can give them magnetism with 
which to come to sight, because it is trans- 
ferable, and if you hive much and give your 
own spirit strength to transfer it, you will be 
able to give them some. They can come and 
talk with you; but there are only very few 
who do that and they are looked upon as de 
ceivers and devils. I will explain further on 
how to do this. All there is to it is to "Learn 

thyself." 

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THOUGHTS. 

Thoughts are things. There is never a 
piece of work done without thought, nor does 
anyone ever take sick, or get well again with- 
out thought, in fact, everything is performed 
by thought. It is not as many people think, 
that the brain composes thought. The brain 
is simply the part which the spirit uses to 
convey its thoughts to the body. Thought 
comes from the spirit; thought is spirit. 

Thoughts and soul work together the 
same as a man and his machine. The spirit's 
thought, forces the soul to perform any work 
it wishes performed. But in order to do this 
to any great extent one must learn how to 
think, how to give the spirit complete control 
over the soul. 

You can, by thinking or by letting your 
spirit have control over the soul, convey this 
soul, or magnetism, to any part of the body 
that is ailing and affect a cure. The way to 
do this is to say that part is getting well, or 
concentrate your mind on this. What I mean 
by this is to imagine that this part is being 

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healed and that makes your soul perform the 
work. 

This can be done to other persons as well 
as yourself. Your spirit or thought can 
transfer your magnetism to the other person 
and perform there the work which you desire 
to be performed. By doing this it makes 
your soul more powerful: and the more 
powerful your soul becomes, the greater 
miracles you can perform. 

Everything else can be done in the same* 
way. That is, after undertaking small things 
first and cultivating the power of the soul*. 
By allowing your thoughts to run in an^ 
immoral way it will bring bad things around 
you, and by allowing them to run in a good 
way it will briug good things around you. 
If you think that you were born for bad luck, 
you are sure to have it until you change your- 
mind. So. in the same way, you can bring 
bad or good luck to others by your thoughts, 
because if you desire bad luck to some one 
else, your soul will, with all its strength, 
perform this work for you, and unless the 
other person has a strong enough soul to 
bring him good in spite of you. he will turn 

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bad. Anyway, it will have a bad effect, that 
is, it will make it harder for him to bring 
upon himself good, than it would if he had 
not your will to battle against. 

Therefore, never allow people to know 
your condition, if they be bad, make them 
think all is well with you, and their thinking 
so will soon have its good effect. 

To illustrate the power of thought I will 
take an incident with which I am well 
acquainted. There were two men, whom, for 
convenience, I will call A. and B. A. desired 
to take the life of B. and it was not long 
before he had a dozen weapons around him 
with which to perform the evil deed. How 
did he get them ? His thought ran in that 
direction. But strange as it may seem, B., in 
the meantime, began to gather up knives and 
guns with which to defend himself, and with- 
out the least thought of why he was doing so. 
He had not the least suspicion of A's inten- 
tion. Why did he do this ? It was simply 
the influence of A's thoughts. And so in 
many cases it has been proved that thought 
will do anything, that thought will be the 
cause of anything 's being done. 

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Now, as I said before, cultivate this 
power in a noble way, by doing little things 
at first, the greater afterwards. The spirit is 
cultivated in the same way. Everything it 
thinks has its effect, a person may be ever so 
smart and as soon as he begins to take part 
in little things he will become frivolous and 
if he keeps on he will become an idiot. 

If you cultivate this soul power and 
spirit mind, it becomes great, you become 
powerful, your face looks it, and everyone 
who comes in your presence feels it. They 
see something about you that other people do 
not possess. They do not know what it is; 
but they know one thing : that you are not 
like other people. 

There is no one thing but that has met 
those kind of people; but some people have 
this power and cultivate it everyday without 
their knowledge. They pass people and say: 
"Oh, they won't be that way long," and at 
the same time they feel sure of this in their 
own mind. People will say: " I never had 
bad luck. I never take sick. In fact, I don't 
believe that I could be sick." All this cultiv- 
ates the soul power. 

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Then there are different kinds of magne- 
tism. Some people have a different kind 
from yours, they have different characteris- 
tics from those you possess, and by being 
around such persons you will take from 
them. Your spirit provides itself with that 
in which it is lacking, and you feel attracted 
to this person, because he has something 
which you have not, and which you desire. 

If you are different from him, he will 
draw from you that which he 4 lacks and it 
becomes a mutual benefit. 

Then again, you will meet persons whom 
you despise. The reason of this is because 
he has nothing that you can take; but you 
have a great deal for him, and soon become 
tired and worn out. 

Leave his company because he has noth- 
ing to offer in return for what he borrows, 
and it is a disadvantage for you to remain in 
his company. But if you stay with him long 
you will soon begin to notice that he has 
some of your characteristics and he does not 
rire you so much, because he has all he needs 
if the person is one who allows his thoughts 
to run in a frivolous way he will keep on 

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drawing from you because he wastes as fast 
as he draws ; but if he is a smart man, after 
he draws what he needs he will begin to bear 
acquaintance. Nevertheless, you will never 
love him or his. 

Also, your spirit can control the body of 
some one else by your getting the consent of 
the spirit from the other body, and then you 
must be powerful enough to control both 
bodies, or a half a dozen bodies, whichever it 
may be, or you will not be able to take con- 
trol from their own spirits. 

Such is the case in hypnotism. You, or 
your spirit, gets consent from the other per- 
son, of their spirit, to let you use their body, 
and then if you are powerful enough, you 
take it; if not, you cannot hypnotize them. 

This can be used as a great benefit if 
understood by the operator. He can give the 
suggestion that anything he wishes done 
which would be a benefit to the person under 
control, be done, and thus start the soul of 
this person to work, while, had this person 
been in his own control, he would not have 
understood how to do this. People who are 
in the spirit world can hear and read 

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thoughts as well as they can hear a spoken 
word, and people who let their spirit have 
control over their body can tell what another 
thinks just as well as if he heard it spoken; 
unless the person thinking does not wish it 
and understands how to set his will against 
it. That stops any other spirit from seeing 
or understanding what you think, whether 
the spirit be in, or out of the body. 

Then your spirit, by the help of the soul, 
after both are well developed, and sometimes 
when not, sends its thoughts to anyone or 
anywhere it desires, and if it be sent to any 
one person who is in the spirit world, it will 
be felt and understood by that spirit. 

When a thought is sent out in a right 
way, it never dies; but can be seen years and 
years afterward, either by spirits or by 
clairvoyants, but after a thought is once re- 
ceived it generally vanishes or that is, the 
spirit who receives it keeps it and it makes 
that spirit more highly developed. It adds 
to that spirit, whether it be the spirit of a 
living person or that of one who has passed 
out. But if the thought be sent to a person 
or spirit with bad intention, it injures them. 

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If a person is a sceptic, and believes there is 
no spirit, he weakens his own, and if he be- 
lieves that spirits who have passed out can- 
not return and be around him he sends them 
away. It is impossible for them to come 
against an unfavorable thought, because they 
are partly formed of thought, so that they 
cannot come against an unfavorable one and 
so cannot come around him. 

But if he believes there is a spirit, and 
that his spirit friends are around him, they 
will come around him and help him in all his 
undertakings. It helps him while it helps 
the spirit friends to progress, because in be- 
ing around him, they can draw and help to 
make their magnetic body. A great deal of 
harm is done the spirit w T orld by this one 
fault. Thought travels through space some- 
thing the same as light goes through ether, 
so it is very easy to direct it to any person, 
either for good or for bad. 



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YOUR PSYCHIC POWERS. 



It is not a certain few who possess these 
strange powers of hypnotism and of telling 
the future and the past, neither is it strange 
when once understood. Everyone has the 
power to obtain these powers, if he will only 
use it. Now some of these things are done 
almost entirely by the soul while others are 
done almost entirely by the spirit, so that you 
can gain the one without the other if you so 
desire. But the obtaining of the one without 
the other cultivates only one of the powers, 
either that of the soul or the spirit. 

To obtain the power of hypnotism you 
cultivate both the soul and the spirit because 
you use the spirit and the soul in doing 
this. The spirit uses the soul in taking con- 
trol of the other person, because it takes 
some power to do this. The power that is 
used by the spirit is the soul. The spirit 
gets benefited until a complete knowledge of 
hypnotism is obtained and the soul keeps on 
progressing because it is used every time the 

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act is performed, and to use it, cultivates it 
and makes it stronger; while the spirit uses 
only the same knowledge every time and un- 
less, through this there comes something 
which would add to the knowledge of the 
operator, the spirit receives no more special 
benefit except that it gets a stronger soul 
each time to work with. 

Magnetic healing acts the same way only 
that the spirit receives more benefit through 
it because there are so many different kinds 
of cures to be affected, which gives more 
knowledge. But in all of these, the soul re- 
ceives the more power, and it can by con- 
stant practice, turn the flesh into soul as was 
the case with Jesus. Now, in telling future 
and past, and in clairvoyance of all kinds, 
the spirit receives all the benefit because it is 
the only thing used in doing this. But first, 
before you can do this. There is a part of 
the brain which the spirit uses to convey 
these thoughts and sights that it receives, to 
the body. 

This part of the brain cells is left un- 
cultivated in most people, and it must be 
cultivated before it can be used. In some 

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people this part is almost gone on account of 
its not being used for so many generations. 
In this case it would take longer to cultivate 
this power. 

Sometimes you see people who use these 
powers and who will tell you it has always 
been natural for them, that is because this 
person happened to be born with this part of 
the brain very large, the same as others are 
born with characteristics of their own. And 
this part of the brain being larger in these 
people it was noticed by them and was used, 
consequently it was kept cultivated. 

But anyone with any amount of reason, 
can, by practice cultivate this. You can do 
this all alone, do this by practicing in telling 
what you think is going to happen to some 
one during the next day, or week. Just sit 
partly close your eyes and stop thinking for 
a minute until you are perfectly relaxed and 
quietly composed. Then notice what im- 
pressions come to your mind and as soon as 
they come say them right out, of course, 
more than likely there will not be any at first. 
But by continuing the practice they will 
gradually come and then say them. At first 

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they may not come true but in a short time 
you will notice that some of them come to 
pass and that is a sign that the brain is start- 
ing to develope, and you will be delighted as 
well as encouraged. Then as you are sitting 
there, sometimes pictures will appear in your 
mind, as it were. You can describe them and 
that is a sign that your spirit is getting con- 
trol over your body and you know w 7 hat it 
sees. 

What I mean by control over your body, 
is that you or your spirit, is becoming capable 
of putting your body aside for the time being 
and you know then what you have seen. A 
better and quicker way to develope this is to 
go, say at first twice a week, in a very dark 
place, sit and call upon your spirit friends to 
come at that time and help you. Then you 
see you will have other spirits besides your 
own to help you in this, and along with it 
you will develope other phases that happen 
to be in your mediumship. But you must 
practice this then between times and you will 
be surprised at the help this will afford you 
in your every day life. You will become so 
that when you are about to take up some 

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work you can feel whether or not you should 
take it up, and how successful you will be in 
this undertaking because your spirit can tell 
you how it will end. If your own does not 
know other spirits will impress you, or your 
spirit so that you will then be able to know 
what the impressions are. 

Then every impression that is received 
by your spirit adds to it, that is, if it is able 
to convey it to the body, because in convey- 
ing this thought it makes the thought belong 
to you thereby adding to your knowledge. 
So, in that way, you can make your body a 
help to your spirit instead of a detriment as 
it is in most cases. 

That is one phase that is beneficial to 
the spirit and not the souL There are other 
phases which should be developed, such as 
talking to spirits who have passed out, hyp- 
notizing yourself, materialization, etc. All 
these except hypnotizing yourself must be 
done in the dark at first because it is easier 
to relax and concentrate in the dark than it is 
in the light. 

In developing the phase of hearing, the 
spirits come and take enough of your mag- 

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netism to give them strength with which to 
speak, thus it helps your spirit and soal as 
well as the spirit who talks. You must learn 
to let your body rest so that the spirit can 
take magnetism from you. This is done by 
relaxing. 

In materializing, your own spirit, per- 
haps with the help of others, leaves your 
body so that other spirits can come and draw 
strength or soul enough from your body to 
bring them in sight. They take your mag- 
netism and light it up around them so that 
everybody who is in the room can talk to 
them and see them. Then the spirits allow 
some of it to go and some of it they retain 
and so this helps them to gain their magnetic 
body. What goes from them comes back to 
you and in that way one after another ma- 
terializes until your strength is exhausted 
and your spirit again takes possession of 
your body. But you, of course, have been 
unconscious of what has been going on. 

This is a great thing because it is such a 
benefit to the spirit world and shows sceptics 
that there are such things as spirits. The 
more people take up the work the sooner 

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they will bring about the millennium, because 
the millennium means the time when the 
spirit world and this world will become cap- 
able of communicating with each other at, 
and under all circumstances. 

The sooner all this work is completed the 
sooner your mission on this earth is fulfilled, 
and when this is done you will not die as 
people die today. You wilJ not return your 
body to dust. You will turn it into soul and 
then you can perform all the things that you 
desire as well as fulfill the desires of others. 

Jesus is the only one who has ever ful- 
filled his mission on this earth. He did not 
leave his body to return to dust. He took it 
up with him by fitting it for that place. He 
said: "Follow me and my teachings." That 
meant that you could do as he did or else 
you would not be able to follow T his teachings 
or him. It seems funny that so many people 
claim to be following Christ's teachings and 
still there are none of them that go as he 
went or do the things that he did and still 
they will say when they see one who is 
practicing his teachings, who is doing the 
things Christ did, that he is possessed of the 

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devil and still he is doing the things, or 
branches of things that Christ did. Oh, peo- 
ple, use your reason, put on your thinking 
caps, can't you see that you are not perform- 
ing one of Christ's teachings? 

Christ came as a model. He told us to 
believe as he did and do as he did. That 
shows us we can do it, for what is in one man 
is in another. The sooner you learn this the 
better you will be. 

Reason ought to tell you that there is 
something about a person that is not visible 
to the naked eye, and if there is, there ought 
to be something done with this, it was created 
for some purpose. You might say that all 
that is necessary on this earth is to be goodr 
But is going to church and being pious — is 
this goodness? It doesn 't do you any good to 
go to church and learn that you should follow T 
the teachings of Christ, and learn what they 
are and not follow them. Is that what you 
call being good? If so, I wish you would ex- 
plain the good there is in it. It is a disgrace 
to you to learn what should be done, and how 
to do it, and not do it. 

• remember that all people who go to 
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church are not good, neither are they doing 
good. They are only a sham and a disgrace 
to themselves and to others unless they fol- 
low the teachings they learn in the church. 
They are deceivers for not doing what 
they are pretending to do and if they are 
doing it, let them show it. We are not sup- 
posed to accept theories, or to take their 
word for it. 



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HOW TO PREVENT OLD AGE. 



As much as old age is dreaded there are 
but very few who try to prevent it. It is im- 
possible to live in the state in which people 
of today are living and still remain young. 
They think anything which happens to suit 
their selfish desires, that is, they feed those 
thoughts until their bodies are in a regular 
fever of excitement and when they at last 
consent to calm themselves again, their 
nervous system is all unstrung and weakened. 

Each time this is done their nervous sys- 
tem is left in a weaker condition. Now, in- 
stead of cherishing these thoughts as most 
people do, to a greater or less degree, try to 
think of something that is elevating to your- 
self, something that is quieting to your 
nerves, and something that will lead to refine- 
ment. When I say refinement I don't mean 
for the women alone to take this up. Some 
people have an idea that all the refinement 
must be and come from the women, but that 
is not the case. Men need refinement as well 

as woman. 

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More than half the misery among 
families comes from this one fault. A bois- 
terous man meets a woman that is nearly all 
refinement. What is the result ? He is at- 
tracted by it and the next step is matrimony. 
After living together for awhile she, or her 
nature, rebels against his rough and boister- 
ous nature because fine and coarse can never 
go together in that any more than in anything 
else. It can never mingle any more than oil 
and water. They do not agree, she can see 
nothing attractive about him, he is repulsive 
to her, and he draws all her strength while 
he has nothing her refined nature can make 
use of. All this ends in a divorce or some- 
thing worse. 

She may see some one that is refined, 
kind and sympathetic, some one who agrees 
with her and she is attracted by him, she 
cannot help it for she is starving to death for 
magnetic food or soul power. She is accused 
of being false when he was the soul cause of 
it all Had he been refined this never would 
have happened, and there would have been 
happiness to retain youth instead of misery 
to bring on old age. 

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Then again, we do not eat what we 
should. We eat anything that tastes good 
and never think of the nourishment it gives 
us. We eat things that the stomach cannot 
digest, such as grease and all kinds of rich 
foods. 

All kinds of grain and fruits have parts 
that go to make .up and nourish the body. 
They can be prepared without all this meat 
and grease which is used in preparing them. 
What few things are eaten which would 
give nourishment to the body are destroyed 
by other things because it takes all the 
strength of the good to destroy the bad. 

Then again, we do not drink enough 
pure water. Water has life and is highly 
charged with magnetism. The more we 
drink, the better. Of course, you must not 
stand and drink three or four quarts at one 
time, thinking that will save all future bother 
for the rest of the day, it must be drunk in 
small quantities and often till you have 
drunk at least three quarts in one day. This 
gives life as well as plenty of liquids for the 
body to use in doing its work. But water 
that is taken directly into the system should 

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be either distilled or filtered. That destroys 
all germs as well as gathering some of the 
minerals which have a tendency to harden 
the bones, make them stiff, and cause rheu- 
matism. 

Some people think that children who are 
growing should have plenty of mineral to 
help harden their bones but this is a mistake 
because it stops a full development and makes 
hem old when they should be children. It 
causes fever and arouses passions which 
should not be aroused until later years, and 
to arouse such passions, destroys their soul 
or magnetism as well as degrades their spirit. 
They need all the soul they have and all they 
can get. 

Then again, we do not breathe deeply 
enough and gather the life that is in the air. 
Every morning just after rising one should 
take about four deep and long breaths in the 
open air. This should be repeated three or 
four times a day and done the last thing be- 
foie retiring. 

There is another thing that brings on old 
age and that is associating with, or being 
with, those who draw from you. When you 

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are around those kind of people you always 
wish they would go and you feel as if every 
word you say to them is forced out. You 
don't w T ant to talk at all and when they are 
gone you feel as if a great burden was lifted 
from your shoulders. 

Some people are continually in the com- 
pany of these kind of people and it is no 
wonder that they show age so quickly. All 
their vitality is used up by some one else. 

When you meet these kind of people or 
are thrown into their company, get out if 
possible, but if it is impossible for you to do 
that you must keep a positive state of mind. 
Just make up your mind that they can draw 
from you and that they will feel as though 
they did not care to be around you. Do not 
allow yourself to feel tired or do not sit and 
relax yourself. If you can get your mind 
occupied w 7 ith something cheerful while they 
are around you, do so. All these things pre- 
vent them from drawing especially if you 
keep in mind every now and then that they 
cannot draw from you. And you must not 
get the blues. It is a different thing when 
you are giving people strength to cure them 

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because they are in a relaxed condition while 
you are in the positive and you draw more 
while you give and it is practice to yourself, 
or to your soul powers to have it doing work 
that you wish it to do. 

If you cultivate your muscles by some 
culture, it strengthens them. You can jerk 
your own arm or leg around as much as you 
please and it does not hurt you; but let some 
one else take it and jerk it around it hurts 
you. And it acts the same on the soul power, 
you can use it as much as you please and it 
does not hurt you ; but to allow someone else 
to draw it and use it, build themselves up 
with it, is a different thing. 

Of course, people who have something to 
offer in return are a benefit to you because 
you can obtain what you do not possess and 
so can afford to lose some of your own and 
replenish it again afterwards. A great 
mistake is made by letting children associate 
with others who have bad habits and ideas, 
because they draw ftom each other and soon 
they fall into each other's habits. If they be 
good ones it is a benefit ; but if they be bad 
there is great harm done. If you follow 

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these rules you will keep years and years of 
youth which you would otherwise lose. Old 
people will begin to look and feel younger; 
but to prevent ever getting old or dying in 
the way of returning dust for dust, you must 
spend all, or nearly all of your time in this 
work and spiritualize yourself, which is of 
course, hard for working people to do. But 
if they did this they could stop work, that is, 
hard work. 

In the first place, you never were sup- 
posed to come here and work hard, because 
that is not doing good. You were supposed 
to make better use of your body. Things 
should be more equal and everyone should 
have his share. Then it would not all be 
thrown on the shoulders of a few. 

The only way to attain this end is to 
take up this work, because people who take 
it up overcome their selfishness. They see 
better things in life than enjoying the petty 
pleasures of today. 

Another thing you must do if you expect 
to retain youth and that is: You should 
never count age by years. If you feel young 
you are young, and if you feel old you are 

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old. If you feel as young at fifty as you 
were at twenty-five you must expect to live 
as much longer as you did at twenty-five. 

Some people, when they reach the age of 
fifty or sixty-five begin to prepare for death 
and to bid their friends good-bye. " Well, I 
guess I am not much longer for this earth, 
you may not see me again, '' etc. Well now, 
if you want to get old just start that going 
and you will soon accomplish your aim. It 
sounds ridiculous to hear such things, for 
people should always strive for something 
higher than that kind of a death. 



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THE SPIRIT WORLD. 



It all depends upon how you have pro- 
gressed in this world what the spirit world 
will be to you. If you are a spiritual person, 
if you understand something about true 
spiritualism, when you pass out you will 
understand it the same as on this earth. It 
isn't so new to you and therefore you can 
sooner adapt' yourself to the spirit world, and 
can start sooner into the spiritual progres- 
sion. 

Some people pa-s out and do not realize 
where they are. They do not seem to under- 
stand that they are yet a spirit: but 
think they are still in the body. They are 
bewildered and sometimes speak to their 
friends who are still in the flesh and wonder 
why they are not answered or noticed. They 
must learn where they are and then thej r 
must understand their condition, and all con- 
ditions of spiritual progression. They begin 
to find their means with which to progress. 
They must, on account of not finishing their 

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work here, finish it there, and in order to do 
that they must have certain material from 
our bodies with which to do this, or progress. 

They must find some one who is in about 
the same condition they are in, and be that 
person's guide. If they lived in a low, un- 
developed condition, they must find some 
low, undeveloped person who is living so that 
they can be around him and draw strength 
from him; and he will progress as fast as 
that person progresses. Sometimes they ad- 
vance a little faster if they have one or two 
persons to guide; but again, they cannot al- 
ways get to be main control and so must take 
a back seat and obtain what they can. They 
can come in only when it is necessary and 
when they are called upon. Then the faster 
they can develope that person whom they are 
guiding the faster they can develope and pro- 
gress. 

Of course, if they could guide some per- 
son who is very highly progressed, they 
could progress much faster until they caught 
up; but if there happens to be some one who 
is highly progressed they already have guides 
who are progressed and they will not let you 

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come in or get around this person because 
they do not want any bad influence around 
this person whom they are guiding. Some- 
times when you are a dear friend of some 
highly progressed person or some relative 
of this highly developed person their guides 
may consent to allow you to join their band 
and still be around them and help that per- 
son from goiog into anything that would not 
be for his good or stop his progression. But 
you could not be their main control unless 
their main control consents to step out and 
allows you to take her place, and he or she 
will not do that until you are capable of the 
task. It is not very often they will consent 
to this even under these conditions. 

Under these circumstances you progress 
faster but it is not often you meet with things 
so favorable. If you leave some one who is 
dear to you, their main control will not stop 
you from joining the band that protects them, 
if you so desire, and as long as your inten- 
tions are good towards them. Sometimes 
you can join half a dozen bands and be with 
each at a time, that is, if you leave children 
or some one who is dear to you. 



So there is no one who dies so wicked 
but that there is a redemption for him in the 
end; only it takes looger to reach that end. 
You can always talk and be around your read 
ones as long as you come with no bad inten- 
tion towards them; but you are not always 
allowed to join their band as a guide until 
you become better, unless it is a very dear 
one to you, and unless that person, if he had 
his choice, would have no objections to your 
coming. Nevertheless if you come with bad 
intentions to anyone, you must go to a person 
who is bad or someone who has no strong 
guides around them. If we progress in a 
spiritual way our guides will soon get strong 
and gather a good strong band w 7 ith which to 
protect us, because it is to their interest to see 
that we are protected well so as not to stop 
our progression and in doing so stop theirs. 

All mediums have a very strong band of 
spirit guides to protect them, and they are 
guided and led into the right path, if they are 
mediums for the good there is in it, both for 
their own good and for the good of the spirit 
world. If they are mediums just for the 
money there is in it and not for the good of 

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their own progression, the} 7 either soon 
gather guides of an evil disposition and their 
good guides leave them to find another sensi- 
tive to control, that is, to find one who reach- 
ed their own standard of progression. 

There are evil spirits in the spirit, world 
as well as there are evil people on this earth. 

They are evil only until they take a 
tumble to themselves and they get time to de- 
velope otherwise, so the sooner you learn 
these things on this earth along with the 
spirit world and become mediums, the better 
off you will be when you get into the spirit 
world. Everyone can become a medium. It 
is only a higher state of progression than 
people are in who do not associate with the 
spirit world. Everyone w T ho so desires can 
attain this. That is what you came here for 
and the more highly progressed you become 
the better mediums you are until at last you 
go into the spirit world yourself. Leave 
your body and go, then come back and take 
up your body again. 

There is a box or cell in the brain which 
contains a chain made of soul or magnetism, 
and which is attached to your spirit. In 



order that the spirit may leave the body be- 
fore death, this box or cell must be made or 
developed When the spirit leaves the body, 
this chain expands or stretches like rubber 
elastic. This keeps on expanding as far as 
you go. You can go as far as this chain will 
permit you to go, and when you return this 
chain contracts again. 

If that chain gets broken you can never 
enter the body again, because the connection 
between you and your body would be broken. 
But it is very hard to break this chain, it is 
guarded so well and so closely by spirit 
friends and guides while you are gone, that 
nothing can break it, because nothing can 
break this chain except a spirit, and the more 
spiritual you become, the longer this chain 
gets; and the farther you can go into the 
spirit worfd. You should have a room in 
w T hich to leave your body while you are gone 
and you should have some living person guard 
this room. All other things are perfectly 
safe because they are attended to by the 
spirit world, and unless some mean living 
person comes into the room and harms you, 
you are perfectly safe. 

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There is not much danger anyway, be- 
cause if someone comes near your body that 
does not understand what is going on, the 
spirit who is standing guard will send word 
to you through this chain and contract it 
In an instant you are back and entering your 
body, so that there is no chain to break. 

Any spirit can send word to you through 
this chain, just as a telegram goes through 
or over the wires, and much more quickly. 
Then you can develope or attain to a higher 
degree of progression than this last. But 
Jesus is the only one who has accomplished 
this, that is, to be able to dematerialize his 
body and take it up with him, change his flesh 
into magnetism or soul. That is the last 
stage of progression on this earth. This is 
the one we should all attain before death. 

We must do it sometime and if w^e don't 
change our own we must get one from some 
one else, after we get into the spirit world. 
The higher you progress here the more you 
have when you get there, and the sooner you 
progress. On account of the people on this 
earth not being progressed bo that degree or 
circle as I will call it, the spirits who have 

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left cannot get their complete body from this 
earth. They go as far as they can with us 
and then take flight to some other planet to 
finish. So let us. all strive to gain that point, 
let our spirits get their bodies from this earth 
without going to other planets to finish, be- 
cause that leaves us without any of those 
highly developed spirits with us and we can 
not get such help from others not so highly 
progressed. 

Other spirits cannot show T themselves 
under all conditions and it makes it harder to 
convince the sceptics to true spiritualism, be- 
cause there must be a materializing medium 
for the other spirits to draw enough strength 
at once with which to materialize, and there 
are not at present, very many of these medi- 
ums, so that it does not afford such opportun- 
ities to people and we are left in ignorance. 
We are left to dwindle away and die. We 
are left to finish in the beyond. 



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GOD. 

For years and years people have been 
praying for help to a God whom they think 
is somewhere in the heavens, just where they 
do not know. They just have some one's 
word for that There have, for the past 
century been heads or rulers, who declare to 
have commune with God, and declare that 
God has given certain rules for him, and that 
he must establish a church, and must have 
people live up to these rules. He declares 
that if you do not obey these rules, God has 
said: " You shall not go to heaven," and he 
further declares that God will punish you 
and send to condemnation, or hell. 

Then this man begins to prove his work 
and the word he receives from the Lord or 
God, by the Bible. Well, some one else 
communes with God, but the funny part of it 
is God tells him something altogether differ- 
ent from what he told the first man, and so 
he starts another church, the only true 
church there is. He proves his church to be 

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the only true one by the Bible. So one after 
another talks to God and everyone proves it 
by the Bible. Each of these is the true 
church, they fight against each other, they 
ridicule each other, and quarrel about which 
is the right church. They all prove that they 
are right by the good book. Why do they ? 
Because you can prove anything by the 
Bible. No matter what it is, good or bad, it 
can be proved to be right by the Bible. 

When a good Christian gets drunk and is 
ridiculed, he goes to the Bible and proves to 
you that he has a right to get drunk. This 
good man did it, and that good man did it, 
and they were of God etc. Now, if you can 
prove that all things are right by the Bible 
which church are you going to follow ? They 
are all well proven. 

If any of those men have commune with 
that man they call God why don't they prove 
it, have you got to take his word for it ? Are 
you supposed to believe him ? Are you sup- 
posed to follow his teachings ? When he will 
not let you see or hear him talk. And if God 
will talk to him why won't he talk to you. 
God, they say, loves us all and is just. Is 

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that just, to talk to one of his loved ones and 
not to another ? If God punishes you if you 
do not follow his commandments and join his 
church — is that just for God to tell one man 
what to do and take him into heaven for fol- 
lowing his teachings and not tell you the 
same; but to condemn you for not following 
them ? Is it just to give one person with one 
kind of ideas, another person another kind, 
and then to condemn and punish you for not 
seeing as some other man sees ? If that is 
justice I don't know what you call injustice. 

Can you love a God of vengeance ? Do 
you do as he tells you because you love him ? 
No. You fear him and run around like mad 
men. You try to find out what you must do 
in order to keep out of hell, and every church 
you go to is different. All have started their 
churches after the teachings of God, all are 
right and all are proven by the Bible. You 
are in a nice fix. One of the worst predica- 
ments you ever got into because there is no 
head or tail to it. 

Soon you get into trouble. You go to 
your minister to see what can be done in your 
helpless condition. He tells you that when 

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you get home you must humble yourself be- 
fore God and pray to him for strength and 
mercy. You accordingly go home and pray 
to him ; but what Js he, and where is he ? 
How does he hear you ? How does he grant 
your requests ? Do you know ? You do not. 
Then why are you praying to something that 
to you is only a dream ? You depend upon 
him, upon whom you do not really know. It 
is God though. You havn't ever seen him; 
but that other man has and God told him that 
he would help us all and that he loved us all. 
If he loved you all why did he not come and 
talk to you also ? Your wish is not granted, 
the one that you prayed for,- and you say that 
it was God's will that it must not be. " That 
is why he didn't answer me " — poor fellow ! 
He gets the blame. 

One of your children dies, one of them is 
an idiot. Some one else has got one all 
broken out with everlasting sores, another is 
crippled for life. And yet you say it is all 
right, ' ' Why that is God 's will, he is trying 
me." He is punishing that some one else for 
not doing right by making an idiot out of one 
\of his children. He loves us all. Is that 

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mercy ? Is that love ? Is that what you call 
God ? The one who will make an idiot out of 
one of your poor, innocent children, a child 
he loves, in order to punish you. Is he a just 
God ? Have you the nerve to blame God for 
such work ? Are you not afraid to cast such 
blame upon the Almighty ? Do you look to 
see if some of it was not the result of your 
own work, the result of your filthy habits, 
and low brutal ideas, or are you willing to lay 
it all on to God ? 

Man, beware, you are doing it all your- 
self. God does good. He never does other- 
wise. He is good and love, and love is 
power. Jesus Christ said ; ' ' He is within 
you." Now, such things have gone far y 
enough. 

Let us start a new plan. Let each of us 
pray to the God within us for help, pray to a 
God about whom we know something, pray to 
one whom we can see by preparing ourselves 
for that, pray to our own God, the God Jesus 
said is within you. Throw out the devil part 
and give your God the power, give him full 
sway and your prayers will be answered. 
They will be answered by your own God, the 

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God within you. He alone can grant your 
wishes; but you must give him a chance. 

Jesus did not pray to some man whom he 
thought to be some where else and did not 
know just where. He always said: ' ; My 
father/"' He did not take into consideration 
your father or my father, it was his own 
father, his own power with which he did the 
work. 

Now, I will tell you what your God is. 
It is simply your spirit. And love or soul is 
his power. That is why I say God is good 
and God is power. You have both. Yes, 
God is within you and it all depends upon 
yourself what strength your God has, and 
what good your God can do for you. You 
have the say and that is why you are here, 
and that is why you have him. Your body is 
just a machine where you, or your God, the 
body's God, is supposed to get its power. 



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THE SPIRIT BEFORE BIRTH. 



Common sense tells you that whatever 
had a beginning must surely have an end. 
Some will say that we are not everlasting be- 
cause we had a beginning and consequently 
we must have an end. This forms a basis for 
the belief which so many people hold: that 
there is no eternity, for eternity is everlast- 
ing, and, having a beginning, we surely have 
an end, then there is no eternity. 

But readers, you have not looked beyond 
the sight of the naked eye or you could not 
but see that we never had a beginning, con- 
sequently we never have an end. Your body 
had a beginning but you never did. Your 
body of clay had a beginning and it will have 
an end. It must be turned from clay into 
soul and in that way it has its ending. If the 
body does not have its end in this way. it 
must have its end in another way, namely, 
death. 

Some will say that our spirit lived before 
we were born. It always lived and alw; 
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will live. You are right, it always lived, it 
always shall live. But how did it live? Was 
it in the form of a person, as it is now? Was 
it some person who has been walking around 
here ever since there was a spirit when it 
never had a beginning? Then it has always 
been roaming around here trying to find a 
body which it might enter. ' Do you suppose 
that it would, if it had its choice, take a body 
that would be a cripple for all its life? 
Would it, after waiting all that time take a 
body that was so imperfect that it could not 
be made anything of after it did take posses- 
sion of it? Or did it have any choice? Per- 
haps in your estimation, it had no choice. 
Then if it had no choice, it must have been 
predestined to take some body, and that body 
must have been predestined to be born for 
that certain spirit to take. And so, accord- 
ing to that there are millions upon millions 
of bodies that are predestined to be born, 
and who in the world predestined them? 

Cannot anyone see that such a theory 
would »be an utter impossibility? Why, there 
would be such a mix up th^t you never would 
have found the body you were supposed to 



take, neither would your body have found 
you, and some spirits never would get a body, 
because there will always be birth. There 
always has been, not on this earth, but on 
other earths, and there has always been 
earths, somewhere in space. 

Friends, you were always something, 
and you were always somewhere; but you 
were not always in the shape of a person, nor 
in the form of one until you were born into a 
body. You were simply a part of that uni- 
versal God which is scattered abovit the uni- 
verse. You were the spirit of the air, the 
God which is in the air. You were part of 
that which rules the planets, for remember, 
God does not only rule you, but he rules 
everything. You were a part of that God. 
You always were part of him, consequently 
you always existed somewhere. 

Then just as there is a body born, that 
body is dead until it gets God and love, which 

spirit and power, and power is soul. When 
that body was being formed the mother 

athed into it a spirit and a soul gotten 
from the universe. The body grew and be- 
came the form of a man. The spirit was 

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drawn in and 'it inveloped that form. In or- 
der to envelope a form, it must first become 
the form of the body which it envelopes. 
And as the body grows even so does the spirit 
grow, the body drawing its, the spirit's, ma- 
terial from the universal God power, from 
thoughts and idea and thus you become a 
spirit with reason, having a body and a soul 
with which to do your work. Man, are you 
doing it? Look around yourself and see. 

Thus you see God is within you, or with- 
in your body. As 1 have said before pray to 
this God. Blame yourself and not others for 
your downfall. Do not blame a God you 
know nothing about for bringing curses upon 
you. You, yourself, are doing it, no one else 
is to blame. 



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UNREASONABLE THINGS. 



All things are unreasonable until pro- 
perly and thoroughly understood; but after 
investigating a thing, after finding out the 
truth of that thing, it looks perfectly reason- 
able, and we wonder why we were not able to 
see that before. Now, that is the case in 
true spiritualism, it looks perfectly absurd, 
but why ? Simply because you do not under- 
stand it. It has not become a knowledge to 
you. It is the knowledge of some one else 
and you never can see it until the knowledge 
becomes your own. 

The greatest trouble with the human race 
today is that they judge too quickly, they 
judge before they have a knowledge to do 
so ; and to do that you are doing a thing you 
have no right to do. When some one comes 
to you with a new idea, no matter how ridi- 
culous it seems to you, you have no right to 
say it is not true until it becomes a knowledge 
to you, a knowledge that you do not now 
possess. If an idea comes to you, study on 

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it, reason it out for yourself, make it a know- 
ledge of your own, either that it is not true 
or that it is true. 

That is what you have reasoning capa- 
city for, to use, and if it proves to be true, it 
adds to you or your spirit, because it becomes 
a knowledge. If it is not true, it becomes a 
knowledge also, because you know that it is 
a falsehood and you will find many truths 
and a great deal of knowledge by the investi- 
gating that you never would have found out 
otherwise. So you see that everything is for 
a purpose, and everything can be made for 
the best, if it is treated properly, because if 
it does nothing more it will add to your spirit 
by knowledge. That is why so few people 
believe in spiritualism because it is not a 
knowledge to those people, or they too will- 
ingly throw it aside to say there is nothing 
in it before they have a knowledge of it. 

Now, you can not get a knowledge ol 
spiritualism without a great deal of thinking 
and reasoning, and in order to do that you 
must throw aside all prejudice, all supersti- 
tion, so that you can look on both sides and 
all around yourself. You can not take just a 



small corner of it. The reason it takes more 
perseverance to gain a knowledge of true 
spiritualism than to gam a knowledge of 
anything else, is because true spiritualism is 
the greatest knowledge that man is capable 
of obtaining. Man is the greatest of all crea- 
tions, man is the greatest of all things, and 
the greatest knowledge man can attain is the 
knowledge of himself. When he gets a 
knowledge of himself , he has a knowledge of 
spiritualism — for what is spiritualism ? Tell 
me if it is not man. 

True spiritualism is a thing that has no 
beginning or end, and there is no end to the 
knowledge. Just so far as you learn your- 
self, just so far will you understand the truth 
of spiritualism, and no farther. Spiritualism 
is the most beautiful study you can take up 
because you never have to stop, you can 
keep. on always, and everything you learn 
concerning it you can prove to yourself. 
Until things can be proven you have no com- 
plete knowledge of them. 

In the study of yourself, or spiritualism, 
you can prove everything both to yourself 
and to others in time. You do not take any 

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one's word for it as you do in other things. 
You have no right to take some one's word 
for anything until they prove it or until you 
prove it for yourself. But on the other hand, 
if they tell you something you have no right 
to call them liars until you prove that they 
are, because they may turn around and show 
you that they are not liars, but they are only 
advanced further than you, so that they are 
capable of doing things and receiving knowl- 
edge that you are not capable of receiving. 
It may be that you will have the pleasure of 
just taking your words back as a knowledge 
that you are what you just called them. 

It is the same with all things. They are 
not true to us until they become a knowledge. 
You are never sick until it becomes a knowl- 
edge to you that you are. You never get 
well until it'becomes a knowledge to you that 
you are well. So if you should get ill just 
make yourself think, in spite of surrounding 
circumstances, that you are not ill; but con- 
tinually getting well and see if you will not 
be well within a very short time. II you do 
not believe this, try it; but give it a good 
trial. Don't just make a play out of it and 

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then claim that it is proven because there is 
a great deal of difference between play and 
real work. And what is worth doing at all 
is w r orth doing well. 

If these things do not look reasonable to 
you, don't condemn them until you have a 
perfect right to do so, because you might 
find out that it is just too far advanced for 
you to grasp at present. 



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THE SPIRIT HOME. 



If you should go to a materializing 
seance, or a trumpet hearing seance, you 
might hear the spirits say : " Oh ! I have 
such a beautiful home in the spirit world. " 
But would you understand what that beauti- 
ful home meant ? It would mean beautiful 
conditions. If conditions were beautiful ; 
then they would have a beautiful home, be- 
cause as far as home in the shape of a house 
and a lot is concerned, they could have that 
as they like it, they could have everything in 
it they wished. They do have these homes 
but they are not on some certain planet; but 
wherever they wish it to be. It is not built 
of rock or brick as our houses. It is not 
made of clay, it is spiritual material. 

If we mortals have a home we must have 
a mortal house, a house made of clay, be- 
cause our body is composed of clay and it 
could not realize a spiritual house. Then the 
spirit must likewise have a home composed 
of spiritual material, one that they can realize 

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in order that it may be a comfort. Perhaps 
if you passed one, you would not see it, un- 
less you were out of your body. Now, do 
not declare that I have said you have ever 
passed one. I say if you should pass one, 
you would never realize it no more than you 
would if you should pass a spirit because it 
would be composed of spiritual material. 

In order to have a beautiful home, they 
must have conditions likewise. Supposing 
you had the chance to build a home that was 
just as you wanted it a great, large, beautiful, 
marble mansion perhaps; but after it was all 
finished you had only money enough to sup- 
port a three room frame. What good would 
that beautiful home do you ? None whatever. 
Supposing then, that they have a beautiful 
home somewhere. They must also, in order 
to make it complete, have beautiful condi- 
tions. 

So if you have a dear one in the spirit 
w T orld, a wife, a husband, a dear little child, 
make them a beautiful home. It is within 
your power to do so. We help make the con- 
ditions which surround them and it depends 
upon ourselves whether or not our spirit 

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friends have a beautiful home. Now, do not 
say that is all foolishness, or that it is 
radical, until you prove it to be so. Do not 
say that, if it does not happen to agree with 
your ideas, because everything seems so 
until perfectly understood. 

There is no one who dies perfectly. 
They should all have gone with a magnetic- 
body as I have said before. If they had done 
this, they would be independent from you, 
but as it is they are not. Besides they die 
ignorant and they are still ignorant there 
until they learn otherwise. They need 
strength with which to obtain such knowledge 
as they are seeking and where is that 
strength coming from ? They do not possess 
it and must get it, and must get it with a 
body. They have lain theirs away, and con- 
sequently must use yours. 

And again, in order to use yours, they 
must have permission to do so, and that per- 
mission must come from us. As I have said 
before, they being partly composed of 
thought, cannot come against an unfavorable 
one. Now, in order for you to allow them to 
use your body, in order to bring beautiful con- 

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ditions around them, you must think favor- 
ably towards them. You cannot say that your 
child is in heaven and cannot come to you, 
and that you can never meet it unless you 
make yourself fit to go where it is and make 
a home for your child. That child loves you 
as it did while on this earth and do not be 
wicked and cruel enough to break its little 
heart by forcing it from you, on account of 
such thoughts. 

It is an utter impossibility for that dear 
one to come to you while you think thus. If 
it comes it must come while you are favorable, 
that is, it might happen that sometime you 
would think of your little girl and wonder if 
she is around you, a< d wonder if it is possible 
that such a thing could be. Yes, and she is 
there. Her only chance is during those flying 
moments and she grasps those few golden 
opportunities, she comes to see the one she 
loves, for her heart is wrapped up in you 
there as well as here r J hen you think : " No 
it is not so. There is no such thing as a 
spirit," or you say : " No they are in heaven 
w r aiting for me" — ah ! what did you do ? You 
sent your dear little girl away from her papa 

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or mamma whichever it may be. 

Man, these things you are always doing. 
Now say to yourself : " Shan't I change and 
bring my darling to me ? Shall I not let her 
come and see me as often as' she wishes. Am 
I not cruel to send her away from me like 
that?" Yes, you are cruel although you 
have not realized it. Now, you can, instead 
of that, bring them to you and even more, 
you can talk to them just as you could before 
they gave up their body. Why don't you do 
it ? If you don't think you can try it and see. 
I am not asking you to take my word for it, 
just follow the directions here, that have and 
will be given and you will prove it for your- 
self. 

Now you are in this condition, with all 
these powers lying dormant. It takes some 
time to cultivate them; but it is worth it and, 
there is nu one but that can do it within three 
years time; and it takes only about an hour a 
day and, if you do not want it for yourself, 
do it for the sake of the spirit world. Do 
your part in making their conditions favor- 
able. 



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POLYGAMY. 

There are several who are practicing 
this terrible vice at the present time and 
more than one church, believes in it. Now, 
you say this book is supposed to be on 
spiritualism, not on other things, but in order 
for me to advocate spiritualism I must show 
up the immorality of man, because in order 
for you to be a true spiritualist and com- 
municate with the highly developed spirits, 
you must first make yourself pure both in 
thought and in actions. To think things of 
an immoral nature degrades your spirit. 
What drags you to the grave is immorality. 
That is what I want to stop and I do not 
want to advocate anything that would have a 
tendency to frighten you out; but I do want 
to show up the wrong there is in it and what 
you are doing for yourself by practicing 
these vices because if that won't stop you, 
nothing will. 

People cannot be scared into anything. 
To do much good they must have a reason 

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for stopping what tbey call pleasure. Then 
they stop it for the good there is in it and 
not because they think they must. When 
they stop for the good there is in it, they 
stop thoughts, or that is, bad thoughts, and 
the other way they just stop the actions and 
the thoughts run on just the same, and it 
injures their own spirit just the same. For 
thoughts are things. Now, people who are 
practicing and believe in polygamy say it is 
right. It must be because animals do it and 
the Lord wishes it in order to bring more 
children into the world. 

Man, for shame, to put yourself equal to 
an animal. Equal to an animal — why, that's 
too good — you go even lower than the lowest 
of animals, because you are endowed with 
the power to reason for yourself and an 
animal is not. How dare you put yourself 
to that equal and then stand tfp and say : "I 
am created in the image of God." Are you 
not afraid of insulting him by practicing such 
vice and then claiming to be in his image 
Yes, indeed, you are insulting him, and you 
have no right to degrade your spirit, to de- 
grade yourself to the lowest degree and then 

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to say that you are an image of good for that 
is what you say. God is good, God is love, 
and God is power. You are hell and a curse 
to man. You do not deserve the name of 
man, for a man means, or is supposed to 
mean, purity, refinement, God, love, and 
power. That is what you must strive for in 
order to talk to and communicate with, the 
spirit world. 

That is what you must strive for in 
order to make yourself a powerful spirit and 
soul, and until you do that, or at least try to 
do it, do not call yourseM a man. You are 
the lowest form of an animal. 

When you go into that wicked and cruel 
vice, you not only hurt your own spirit ; but 
you break the hearts of women as well as 
ruining the lives of poor, innocent children. 
You thus degrade and stop the development 
of their spirits, stop them from fullfilling 
their mission on this earth. Do you think 
that a God, a merciful God, would wish to 
have you bring children on this earth in that 
Way ? No, do not accuse a God of such con- 
duct, or such mercy as that. Everything 
you do in this way degrades and lessens your 

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power and you do not go into this vice for 
your belief It is to gratify your animal 
passions, nothing more, nothing less. It is 
that. Whoever says different, lies. 

Now, all proper thoughts help you and 
the other kind is a disadvantage bo you. 
You never were supposed to come here and 
kill yourself by work. Your mind can melt 
bad luck just the same as the sun can melt 
snow. If you wish a certain thing or desire 
it, keep your thoughts firmly on that wish, 
till you get it. It is sure to come. 

Now, you can not have a desire granted 
by thought, and think one day : "I will 
have this. It is coming," and the next day 
worry, the next day wonder if it will not, the 
next day be afraid it will not, and so on for 
a week. Then all of a sudden you take a 
notion that you are going to have that thing 
again. That is no way to do a thing and 
that will never bring it to you for you spend 
one day in bringing it, and six days in send- 
ing it away again, and then say : " Oh, dear, 
I was born for bad luck. Anyhow, the Lord 
is trying me." Look here, you are trying 
yourself. The Lord has nothing to do with 

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it and what right have you to waste your life 
and then to blame it onto the Lord. God 
helps them that help themselves because God 
is within you and if you want his help give 
him a chance to help you. I will assure you 
he w r ill do it. Make a God out of yourself 
and do not depend on some one else. Every- 
one has their own wants to look after, even 
if it were the Lord. For the higher man 
gets, the greater are his wants, and wants 
increase with the progression of man, and all 
have just as much as they can attend to, no 
matter who it is. 



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LOVE AND FANCY. 



There is not one of us that is more than 
half. Sometimes you will see a boy or girl, 
one that you have watched from babyhood 
perhaps; but you wonder sometimes why it 
is tbat they, now about nineteen or twenty 
years of age, are so boyish or girlish. Then 
you go away perhaps, or perhaps you do not, 
but when you get back you look at that boy 
or girl; but what in the world has happened? 
Why, in those last few days she has grown 
into a woman; but what caused it? She has 
become a whole, her spirit has united with 
the other half of it; it has found its other half 
and become a whole and she has changed 
from a girl into a woman. 

She is deeper, she looks more beautiful 
than she used to look. She is happier than 
she used to be; but her pleasures run in a 
different direction. Now this is true love 
when the spirit and soul unite. There is an- 
other, a fancy, that is sometimes mistaken 
for love and through this, great mistakes are 

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made and thus great calamities are caused. 
Fancy is the uniting of two souls but not of 
two spirits, it is called affinity, and is some- 
times mistaken for love and marriage is the 
result. 

But the greatest results come later on. 
Soon, when they are together a w T hile they 
find that they do not agree, that they both 
get all the influence of the other's soul that 
they need, or all the magnetism they need 
from the other person, and they find that 
„ their spirits are not united, they fairly hate 
each other. Misery is the result. 

Sometimes they go on and think they are 
in love with each other until one or the other 
meets some person with whom both their 
Arit and soul unite and they then find out 
that they do not love the person with w T hom 
they are living, and misery conies again. 
They get to hate the person for keeping 
them away from the one whom they love, 
and sometimes suicide is the result. Love 
does not come by command, neither does it 
go by command; but when you meet a spirit 
and a soul that unites with yours, they will 
unite and nothing on the face of the earth 

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can stop them. You can do everything but 

i 
it all ends with the same result. 

There is another calamity caused through 
fancy. Sometimes young boys and girls 
fancy they are in love with each other and 
thus get frivolous, and good for nothing, 
vain, etc , because it is playing at love. It 
causes flirtation. There are so many souls 
that will unite with yours that you imagine 
you are in love with everybody, aud in doing 
this, you cultivate yourself to this and weak- 
en your spirit, because you are playing false 
to love and love can be trodden under foot as 
well as other things. 

But if a boy falls in love first, there is no 
danger of mistaking fancy for love after- 
wards. They will always know the differ- 
ence. Besides, it developes the spirits of 
both instead of causing them to grow unsensi- 
tive as the other causes. There is a bad and 
a good to everything until understood, and 
until you learn to make good out of it. 

That is the bad and good to love While 
if fancy and love were understood good could 
be made out of both as was intended in the 
first place. Thus you see everything goes 



wrong through not understanding ourselves. 
Now, if we understood when we or our souls 
united we would take advantage of the oppor- 
tunities and stay with this person a great 
deal, until our souls drew what it needed and 
in that way give us more power. Our soul 
would be that much greater than it was; 
but instead we take it for something else and 
make a bad thing out of it. 

It is just the same as if you had never 
seen a bed and all of a sudden came across a 
dresser, mistook it for a bed, try to sleep on 
it and dress by the bed. You would make 
bad out of it all, while if you understood you 
could have used both to a good advantage. 
Therefore, do not feel worried about someone 
falling in love because the sooner they find 
out what love is, and what fancy is, the bet- 
ter, and the sooner they will make good out 
of both. Now there is another uniting which 
is the uniting of two spirits and not the souls 
and in that case you are always friends. 

So you see there are the three forms 
which I will class in this way: first, friend- 
ship, then the uniting of souls which I will 
call bosom friendship, and love, the greatest 

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of all, the strongest of all, the power of God 
within you. 

Now it is necessary that you should have 
all of these; but it is also necessary that these 
be understood in order to make use of them 
all to the best advantage. Friendship aids 
and strengthens the spirit, bosom friendship, 
the soul, and love, both. Love developes 
both, in fact, you are nothing until you have 
been in love, because you have never been 
more than half. There is another mistake 
caused by the parents and it is the greatest 
mistake they can make. Sometimes their 
daughter or son falls in love with someone 
they do not like and they begin to make plans 
for separating them. But remember, when 
you plan this, if you are successful, you ruin 
or nearly ruin your child's life. It never 
fails and you have no business to try to inter- 
fere. 

When you cut an apple in half you spoil 
the growth of that apple. When you cut off 
the other half of your child when once united, 
you spoil the development of your child . That 
is, if it really is love; but if it is only fancy no 
harm in particular is done. But when once 

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united perfectly and then separated, they will 
never survive until united again. If you do 
not believe this, try it and see. You can say 
that there are others just as good; but that 
does not answer the purpose. You can find 
another apple just as good too; but cut it in 
half and add it to the one you first separated 
and it does not answer the purpose. You 
have interfered with nature when you had 
no business to do so. 

What suits you may not suit some one 
else, and they have a right to their own de- 
sires as well as you have a right to yours. 
Remember this, that nothing is rightfully a 
slave to you, even though it be your own 
child, and if she falls in love it is better, if 
taken in the right way. It never ends well 
if you interfere with nature and love is nature. 

Children never J all in love until their 
spirit is developed because it is not nature, 
and love is nature. They can have a fancy; 
but this must be understood and stopped or 
if they fancy they are in love before they are 
it will stop the development of their spirit 
and make it frivolous. It sometimes goes so 
far as to make it impossible to ever love. It 

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is all fancy and imaginat on, and if they seem 
to fall in love before they start to develope 
into manhood or womanhood, stop it at once; 
but after they are developed, have nothing 
to do with it because if they meet a mate 
they will match no matter what or how big a 
rogue the person may be. So the best way 
is to teach children to be what is right and 
prepare themselves so that they are fit to 
unite with their mate. Don't wait until they 
do unite and then try to stop it, that is taking 
things after it is too late. 

If people and children learned themselves 
before they learned anything else, they would 
do good for the good there is in it, for the 
good it would do them; but if a person is 
going to do a thing he must first understand 
why he does it. You cannot do good and not 
know why it is best. All things must be 
changed before you are a spiritualist because 
spiritualism is the study of man, and as you 
advance in the study of yourself, the greater 
spiritualist you will be. 



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REINCARNATION. 

There is such a thing as reincarnation ; 
but it is very rare, and if at all, it is the 
choice of the spirit. In order for the spirit 
to be .reincarnated it must go into the Ego 
again, and in doing so it loses all soul power, 
it does not realize until in the other body; but 
you will find this person very, very smart as 
a general rule. They can carry a point when 
but very little children. You will find that 
sometimes they no more than learn to talk 
when they will astonish you with very ad- 
vanced ideas and sometimes make public 
speeches when about the age of six or seven. 
But they do not realize. that they ever 
existed before until the next death and then 
they realize that they have lived two lives in 
the body. It has been positively known that 
a spirit has been reincarnated twice; but in 
that case they realize that they lived before 
and all about it. Now perhaps you have 
never met these people; but some people 
have. It is very rare that a spirit would 
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want to ever come back to this earth of cor- 
ruption, deception, and sin after having once 
left it. But some do because spirits have 
different ideas as well as we. 

Of course, that is one form of progres- 
sion and some want to take it. Some take 
other forms; but there is progression always. 
Man never stops. There is no end to his ex- 
istence, neither is there an end to his pro- 
gression; but there are only seven that we 
know of at the present time, because after 
that they are beyond us and we know noth- 
ing of them after that. They then enter the 
inner circle, as it is called, and we must 
reach that before we learn anything more 
about it. 

Some people say today that Jesus Christ 
was a perfect man; but it is not so for there 
is no such a man, either in spirit or in body, 
because there is no end. We are perfect in 
each stage of progression, but no farther. 
Then we start another. Jesus was the only 
perfect man as far as he could go on this 
earth, or this progression. He finished the 
seven stages of progression here. He did 
not wait till he entered the spirit world. He 

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took advantage of his present condition. He 
learned himself and went from here into the 
inner circle. There we know nothing more 
about him. 



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MUSIC AND FLOWERS. 



There is a great deal of difference 
between people; and a great deal of difference 
to the extent they enjoy music and flowers. 
When a man is working all day and is very 
tired, it seems, in fact, we know, that there 
is nothing that rests him so much as a good 
supper and a good night s sleep, that is, it 
rests his body, not his spirit. It is the same 
with music and his spirit as it is with his 
body and a sleep. Music is resting to the 
spirit. It causes harmony and rests it. 
While we sit and listen to apiece of music we 
feel as though we could almost reach out our 
hands and catch the chords of harmony as 
they float by our ears, and our spirit never 
forgets it. It even feeds our spirit when we 
think of the time we sat and listened to it. 

The fact is, the spirit rests. It makes a 
supper out of the music and we feel well and 
delighted. We have an inclination to dance. 
I have many times heard people of learning 
say that if a man is going insane or thought 

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to be going insane the best thing in the world 
that can be done is to play a nice piece of 
music. It pacifies him, quiets him, and they 
say that some have even been cured. The 
disease, if you must call it that, is checked 
through a sweet piece of music. 

That is true. What is insanity but the 
struggle . of the spirit with the body to hold 
its place, to keep the fevered body from driv- 
ing it away ? This continual labor tires the 
spirit and it needs rest. If you have a cer- 
tain point to walk and you tire out about two 
thirds of the way you must stop unless some- 
thing else turns up. If you were to lie down 
and sleep an hour or two you could finish the 
journey. It is the same in the other case. If 
the spirit gets rest and it has not too hard a 
task yet before it, it will finish its journey 
and conquer its servant, the body. 

Flowers are resting to the spirit and feed 
the soul. Flowers are soul. They are pure 
and can be dematerialized by a person with a 
stronger soul than that of the flower. The 
flower can be taken into the soul of the per- 
son, the soul feeds on it, and it is made 
stronger. And again, it can be dematerializ- 

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ed and taken to a certain place and material- 
ized again, so that you would have the flower, 
the same one, before you again. This may 
look unreasonable to you but nevertheless it 
has been done. 

You often hear a good medium say that 
the spirits sometimes bring large boquets to 
him. You may, on account of not under- 
standing it, disbelieve him; but it is so, and 
this is the way it is done. They are not 
taken from the "spirit world, as it is the 
opinion of many people; but they are simply 
flowers from this earth which the spirits have 
dematerialized taken to the place desired. 
They are taken through the wall, the same as 
electricity is taken through a wire. There 
they are materialized again, and given to the 
people. 

You have often, if you raise house 
flowers, where they are watched continually, 
seen one of your beautiful flowers come out, 
in the evening perhaps, and when morning 
came you found your flower gone. No one 
picked it. Where did it go ? The way I just 
explained is the way your flower disappeared. 
This looks fanatical in the ej 7 es of some, but 



all things are so until thoroughly understood 
and this is, and has been done a great many- 
times. The Hindoos are always doing it, and 
if it looks impossible to you, the best way 
for you to find out and prove me to be a liar, 
is to test it for yourself. But in order to do 
that you must gain strength of soul and 
spirit. You must spiritualize yourself and do 
this. Or spiritualize yourself enough do that 
your own spirit friends can take strength 
enough, from you to do this one thing for 
you. 

Then you often wonder why music per- 
formed by machinery does not sound as lovely 
as music performed by some person. The 
fact is simply this, that if a person is 
playing a piece of music their whole soul and 
spirit is in that music. They send out their 
magnetism with the harmonious chords and 
it thrills and feeds your soul as well as rests 
your spirit. Machinery sends out only the 
harmony and rests only your spirit. This is 
proven because, if a person plays for some 
hours their music is lovely at first; but if you 
go out so as not to tire your body through 
sitting and then after an hour or two you 

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happen back, the music sounds as if it came 
from a music box. The person's magnetism 
is exhausted and you hear only half of, or 
get the benefit of only half of the music. 



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'BELIEVE AND BE SAVED." 



Five hundred years before the birth of 
Christ it was predicted that a fountain of life 
would come forth in five hundred years. 
What do you understand by that? Do you 
think that before, and at that very time there 
was no fountain of life? Why would there 
be one when Jesus was born? There always 
was a fountain of life. If there was not a 
fountain of life always, there never would 
have been life in anyone or anything. 

There is life in the air that you breathe, 
there is God in the air that you breathe, there 
is God within you. There always was and 
there always will be. There is magnetism in 
the air, and you can draw it if you only knew 
this, and knew how to take it, which will be 
explained after while. But in order to draw 
magnetism in from the air, you must cultivate 
the spirit so that it is capable of turning the 
magnetism from the air, into personal mag- 
netism, or soul power. 

When the life is in the air, it is in a rude 

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form; but it can be refined and made per- 
fect. You must do that. If you find a piece 
of ore in the ground, the gold or silver in 
that ore is in a rude form, and what good is 
it until it goes through a refining process? 
It is there, but the next thing is to get it out. 
Before you can do that you must first learn 
how to do that. 

Of course, you do get some of it f just 
enough to keep that clay body of yours mov- 
ing for a few years; but in a short time it 
seems to go. You cannot, and have not been 
keeping it alive, and soon it becomes of no 
more use to you, only a detriment. You 
must throw it away and be left without a ma- 
chine with which to work. You must do the 
work with your bare hands, or that is the 
comparison we will make between your spirit 
or thought and your body. We will liken 
the hands to the body, the machine. After 
you throw it away you must do all with 
thought, and you have no power but that of 
thought to do it with. Of course, it takes 
thousands of years to do the work in pro- 
gression with bare thought, the work you 
could have done in fifty with thought and 

a body. 

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Now, you may say: "We may do that; 
but after awhile our body must go anyway." 
I have said before that I do not believe in 
throwing it away at all. It must be progress- 
ed and changed to a body of a higher form 
and taken with you so as to always have a 
body with which to work. Only you will have 
a body with a great many more improvements 
than it had in the first place. What was the 
first locomotive compared with the locomotive 
of today? Your body must improve even 
more than in comparison and for the good 
there is in it, do it. 

You will go to church and hear the min- 
ister or whoever gives the sermon say: "Be- 
lieve and be saved;" but look here, Jesus 
told you to believe as he did and do as he did. 
You cannot believe and be saved. You must 
do or it amounts to nothing. Some people 
say we cannot do as Jesus did because he was 
the only begotten son of the father; but if 
you take that as a proof that you cannot do 
what he did, you must contradict or lay aside 
the passage where he says: "Believe as I 
do and do the things that I have done." He 
even went farther, he said: "You can do 

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even greater things than I have done.' 
When he said you could do this, that is what 
he meant. When you say that we cannot do 
the things that he did because he was the 
only begotten son of the father, you accuse 
him of telling a falsehood. He says that you 
can and as far as the only begotten son is con- 
cerned, I will explain in private to any one 
who will send to me for the explanation. 

Now, when it was predicted that in five 
hundred years the fountain, of life would come, 
it simply meant that a man would come who 
understood how to use the fountain of life to 
the best advantage, and that it would be a 
man with purity of mind enough to do this. 
It takes a man with a will and a strong de- 
termination to drop all things of an impure 
nature in order to stand up for the truth in a 
world where such a thing as truth is not 
known, where a man will do anything to get 
the best of his neighbor, even to telling a 
little, petty lie. 

If you are going to do what Jesus did you 
must first learn the good there is in it. The 
good there is in it for you, and then you 
might do it; but you can never be frightened 

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into doing anything. To look ahead, to see 
what there is to be done and how far you are 
from it, and how far you must go, to look at 
the long road, to look at the hard and steady 
work in order to accomplish that end, will be 
the biggest fright you ever had. 

What do you understand by the darkness 
that overflooded the earth after the cruci- 
fixion of Christ? Do you think that it was 
earth-quakes and so on that flooded and en- 
veloped it in perfect darkness. Or do you 
think that it was simply a comparison and 
that the people were left in the dark without 
a source of knowledge of their vital forces? 
I think the latter and what is more I think it 
has just come to light again. Most of it is 
coming from his teachings; but people are 
just beginning to see what he meant and to 
understand his teachings, because some are 
now doing the things that he did. 

That brings out the light of his dying to 
save us, because he knew that if he came and 
declared the truth in the condition in which 
the people were living, that they would try 
to kill him and unless he did this we would 
never find out the truth. But they failed to 

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kill him and that was another illustration 
which was shown to us, namely, that we 
could fit ourselves so that our body could not 
be killed, because his was not. He came out 
with his body three days afterwards, only it 
took him three days to change it, to dema- 
terialize it, after what had been done, and we 
also could do that or he is a teller of false- 
hoods. 

He had, for a long time, been in that per- 
fect condition for it has been proved in this 
way. At one time his disciples were alone, 
and when the doors and windows were bolted, 
Peter said: "What shall we do, for our Lord 
is not with us?" when lo and behold Jesus 
stood before them. Peter said that he could 
not believe it unless he touched him. Jesus 
reached out his hand and touched Peter say- 
ing: "Oh, ye of little faith." Then Peter 
believed. How was this done? He dema- 
terialized, came through the wall, and ma 
terialized into the flesh again. Again this is 
proved by his walking on the water. His 
body was a magnetic one until he reached 
the ship. No one could ever walk on the 
water as he did in any other way. 

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Now as long as this has been proved, 
why not do it? Do not only believe as he 
did and do as he did, but even more, because 
he was driven away from us. That brings 
out his death. He was dead to us but not in 
reality, and you can stay and have the 
chance to do even more. 



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THINGS ARE AS WE MAKE THEM. 



Everything in the beginning was meant 
for good; but on account of the immorality of 
man, things are changed from truth to lies, 
from purity to vulgarity, from a blessing to a 
curse. The most high and divine things 
that were meant for the good and progression 
of man are dragged down to the depths of 
hell, made a disgrace to humanity, and they 
are dragged down by no other agency than 
man himself. 

Man was created in the image of God, 
with a God within him, and with reason to 
use that God. He was given the honor of 
being the highest of all creations, with the 
power to rule all creations, and to rule every- 
thing in its most divine form, in its highest. 
And how has he fulfilled his mission ? Has 
he done justice to the power and creation he 
is over ? He has not. He has what you 
might say, brought destruction upon it. He 
has in his mind disgraced it. He thinks 
immoral thoughts which have a tendency to 

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degrade this beautiful work of nature over 
which he is the ruler. 

The average man is not capable of ruling 
himself, let alone the creations under him. 
The highest of all nature is the creation of 
man. Love should be the cause of, and is 
the cause of this creation, among some at the 
present time. What does man do with this, 
what does he do with the creation of himself? 
He makes it immoral, he looks at it as if it 
were a disgrace to him. He is ashamed of 
it, he makes it appear as if it should be 
hidden from him, instead of his being proud 
of it. He is not satisfied with the downfall 
of his own; but he takes all the creation in 
the same way. He has even gone so far that 
some are diseased and some almost decompos- 
ed through the misusage of his creative 
power. One man will not even do justice to 
another. If his fellow creature falls he will 
make it impossible for him to ever arouse 
himself again, because if, through making a 
mistake he goes down, we will keep him 
down and even force him lower in spite of 
himself, and then we will hang him for our 
own work. 

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If a fellow creature of ours should fall, 
it is our duty to help him up again, if he so 
desires, and if he is shown his mistake, in 
nearly every case, he is willing and more 
than willing to retrace his steps. But we 
will not allow him to do so. We are always 
willing to give him credit for the wrong he 
does; but never willing to give him credit for 
the good he does along with that bad. We 
would rather take the credit to ourselves for 
what good he has done and the good we did 
in getting away with him. 

It is just like this, if a man deserves 
punishment for his evil doing he deserves 
credit for all his good acts if it is nothing 
more than saving the life of a butter-fly. 
There never was a man born without some 
good in him, if he had the chance to show it; 
but because he was started wrong we take 
good care that he keeps wrong, and if he had 
not been started wrong he would never have 
done wrong. It was born in him either from 
his father or his mother, or sometimes it even 
comes from his great grand father, and then 
we blame him for yielding to his nature. Of 
course, we could not give him credit for yield- 
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ing to a bad nature, but then it is not neces- 
sary to judge him so harshly. We should 
reach out a helping hand, or speak one lov- 
ing or encouraging word. 

Some men will go so far as to run down 
and degrade their own mother and sisters by 
thinking low of .their sex. Remember that 
your mother was a woman, and that she was 
the one who gave you birth. You have no 
right to run down her <sex by saying she is 
not equal to man. She is equal to man in 
every sense. She is capable of doing any- 
thing with her reasoning power that a man 
is capable of doing. Where did you get all- 
of yours ? How did it happen to come from 
a poor, demented woman ? I wish you 
would explain unless you think she is your 
equal, then it needs no explanation. 

Some say that she is not capable of hav- 
ing an influence in the government. She 
hasn't sense enough, she is too fickle. All 
she ought to do would be to stay at home and 
raise the children. Poor, little things to be 
left in the care and instruction of a woman ! 

Now, if she isn't capable of taking part 
in the government under which she lives, she 

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is not capable of instructing your smart boys, 
who will take part after awhile. Whether 
or not she is capable of taking part she has 
the right to do so. You, man I mean, can- 
not live her life for her. If you are the 
head, she has her own life to live, and if she 
were a dog, she has a right to help make the 
laws under which she lives. If a woman 
lives her life away with you, she has as 
much right to have a woman ruler as you 
have to a man ruler. She was given the 
power to give birth, and it would be con- 
trary to nature for that to be given to the 
lowest. 

You seem to think that this is. a free 
country; but it is not free to woman. It is 
all right for an old, drunken, filthy, sop of a 
man to go to the polls and vote; but pure, 
high minded women must let that kind of a 
man make, or help make her laws for her. 
Some men take this excuse, that the polls are 
no place, no fit place, for a woman to go, 
with all those men of low character standing 
about, but if that is the case, just use a little 
of that money you spend on election day to 
purchase whiskey so that you can buy over a 

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few votes, for you know that will bring 
votes from the man better than anything, it 
won't from the women, take that and pre- 
pare a place for the women to go and vote. 
A place where men are not allowed. Then 
she wall not be thrown into the company of 
your smart men. 

But a man is no more likely to injure 
your daughter at the polls, than at lectures, 
church, on the street, or any other place. If 
the women were allowed to go the men w r ould 
likely keep themselves in a more respectable 
condition through the respect they might 
possibly have. Then others say man was 
created first and woman was taken from his 
ribs, from man. The root of a tree started 
before the tree; but that is no sign that the 
root is of the most use to us. I was taken 
from my father and mother, mostly from her, 
but that is no sign that they are any better 
than I am or capable of better reasoning than 
I am. One must be first. Then again women 
are not one sided, they have the same amount 
of ribs on both sides. I guess that is the 
reason why men are so one sided and want all 
the credit for themselves. I don't see any 

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other way that it could start. 

The only difference between a man ruler 
and a woman ruler is that a woman rules with 
love, a man with cruelty. A man would hang 
where a woman would save. She believes in 
letting every one have a chance to do good if 
he wishes, bhe gives everyone a chance and 
men have taken the advantage of this and 
thrown ber overboard. 

Now we could be ruled with love as well 
as with force, and better. You can be coaxed 
into a thing where it would be impossible to 
force you to do that thing. You would 
rather die than be forced. Before we become 
spiritual, we must overcome selfishness and 
instead create love. Love is power, love 
developes the spirit and makes it strong. 
Selfishness drowns it out. You can never 
progress ^ith selfishness. It keeps you too 
much at a standstill. Love promotes love. 
Everything that is good discards the bad, 
and brings good instead. 

Become spiritual, communicate with the 
spirit world, find out their form of govern- 
ment, and see if you cannot improve yours, 
that is, the government of yourselves. Don't 

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cause all these disasters and then say : "It 
was God who did it." God does good and 
nothing else. The spirit world is ruled by 
the government of God. Why can't we be 
ruled by that ? That is why we have it, to 
be ruled by it. 

Then in these conditions we will say: "If 
there are spirits around me, why don't they 
show themselves ?" They can not. We 
drive those who are able to be around us> 
away from us, the others go to a place where 
people are more worthy of their company. 
Fit yourself for this and they will come to 
you, but you cannot expect them to do so 
until you fit yourself for that. When you try 
to do what is right and live according to 
nature, they will come. They come to some 
and they will come to you. Prove it for 
yourself. 



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DEATH, OR WHAT IS CALLED DEATH. 



There is nothing that brings such a 
gloom over a person or sickens the heart 
like the word death. There is nothing that 
brings the agony to a mother that death does. 
To say her last good-bye to the child she has 
brought into the world, and nursed from a 
babe to manhood or womanhood, to say good- 
bye to the child of her own flesh and blood. 
Oh! how terrible! And why did it all cotae? 
Why did they have to leave? Still you never 
think once but that it must come, only you 
cannot see why it should; but do you ever 
think for one moment that there could be any 
way of preventing this terrible thing, death? 
No there is not. Not as long as we continue 
to violate the laws of nature. 

When we stop violating the laws of 
nature then there is a way to prevent death, 
but not until. Whenever one of your dear 
ones die, your wife, your husband, your child, 
whichever it may be, take it for granted that 
one or more of nature's laws have been vio- 

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lated, and not corrected again. You say I 
could not help it. God knows you would if 
t had been in your power; but it wa*> not. 
How sad! But why? Simply because you 
did not understand. Nothing is in our power 
unless we understand its workings. 

Nature has been dragged down for gen- 
erations. From birth we start to violate the 
laws for those who are to come after us. 
The consequence is death. We, in our condi- 
tion, most of us, have not the power to stop 
it; but if nature were allowed to take its 
course there would never be need of a power 
to stop it. So long as there is need of this 
power let us look around us and see if we do 
not possess this power. I say we do I have 
given a thoroughly, good investigation and 
have finally come to the conclusion that there 
is such a power, only it is not understood. I 
have come to the conclusion that we all have 
it; but do not understand bow to use it, con- 
sequently it is of no use to us, it is lying dor- 
mant. Such a power lying dormant, think 
of it! You might say if we have this power 
what is it? Is it medicine? No it is not. Of 
course, medicine will stop it in some cases; 

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but it fails sometimes, it is not operations, 
because they too sometimes fail. You might 
say it is through eating things we should eat, 
discarding those things which we ought not 
to eat, and living according to the laws of 
nature. I have heard that from a great 
many but often one has been violating na- 
ture's laws until he is at death's door. , When 
this is the case it is a little too late to begin 
with nature's food because the body is not 
capable of doing anything with it. 

Of course, it will do in some cases, and 
does a great deal of good in all cases, if it 
can be used; but like all the rest, it too, fails 
on account of its being too late. Then what 
is it? It is the God within you. There is 
hardly a limit lor its power, and if used can 
always be a preventative of death even when 
death has started. Then they say it cannot 
be stopped; but it can be stopped, by the 
power that should be used to stop it, even 
after death has taken place. Jesus did it. 
How? With the power of the God within 
him. "Believe as I do and do as I do," then 
why do you not do it? You, nearly all of you, 
say you believe as he did, then, why don't 

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you do as he did? Simply this, you do not 
believe as he believed, if you did you would 
be doing at least a few of his teachings. He 
believed that he could do as well as he be- 
lieved in doing. 

If death comes to one it is on account of 
the lack of life. Life is gradually wasting 
away and the person does not know how to 
get more. He has been left in ignorance of 
his power and, in fact, he has been left in 
ignorance of what life really is. 

Can any of you explain what life really 
is? What causes life in your body? Then if 
you do not know what life is, how are you 
going to get it? How are you going to re- 
tain a supply enough to keep you going? 
That is the way with the dying man, he 
does't know what life is, and consequently 
knows not how to keep it, or how to keep 
what he has. It is very simple but still not 
understood. You get it by thought. Thought 
is your God, he gives everything and does 
ery thing by being the cause of its being 
done. You cannot do a thing without think- 
ing it first, and in the same way he will pre- 
vent death, only give him the chance. 

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Thought, as I say does, everything; but 
in order for it to do good, you must think 
rightly, for thought destroys, and thought 
builds up whichever way you use it. Then 
if a man is dying his life is going, he needs 
more. Then he can live. You are well. 
Give him some of yours; but first learn what 
it is. It is this, the soul of your body, the 
magnetism of your body, that is its life. Just 
give this poor dying creature some of it, 
transfer it to this person with your thought, 
your spirit, your God. He can just take some 
of it, transfer it to the other by thinking so. 
Just think this person is getting well. "You 
shall, I give you some of my life to build 
upon, and you will build upon this," and 
while you say this put your hands on him so 
that the life may go through. Thinking this 
to yourself with a great determination, takes 
the life from all over your body, through 
your hands, through the veins of the person 
diseased. Then there is another thing to be 
done while you are giving this man f life, you 
must get more. Think "I am drawing life 
from the atmosphere and filling my own body 
with it," and so, while you think your God 

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works, in fact, thought is he. It is he work- 
ing. That is why you think. He is thought. 

Now, this does not hurt you, it gives you 
God power, and gives him a chance to draw 
more magnetism, with which to do his work, 
to keep you alive and to keep others alive. 
Thus you have used your God to heal this 
man and you can use him to do anything, all 
he needs is a chance. 

I will say no more on this here; but I 
will devote another chapter to make it better 
understood Jesus always said, "Oh, God, 
grant this, grant that, give me so and so/' 
then he got it. And he said 'God is within 
you." What did he mean by that? It is this. 
That God was within him, and he used it, 
and that God is within you, and why don't 
you use it? He even went so far as to tell 
you that you could use it. He never prayed 
to your God, he prayed to his own. You be- 
lieve as he did. He didn't believe in death, 
if he had he would have died; but he did not. 
Why. Because it is against nature, and he 
lived according to nature. If you are a be- 
liever in Christ, you too, would live according 
to nature. 

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Some say that death is necessary, that it 
gives and creates high and noble thoughts. 
Oh, what a frail excuse, what a disgrace to 
humanity to say that with all their reason 
and all the power with which they have been 
endowed, must take this terrible thing to 
create noble thoughts within them. Is that 
justice? That a man should die just to bene- 
fit you? Are you so hard that you must be 
brought to that terrible anguish before you 
have noble thoughts!'' Oh, man, think higher 
of yourself than that. 

I do not say that it does not create noble 
thoughts; but I do say this, that if we do not 
we at least should, think thoughts without 
this. You say that death is natural without 
a reason for saying so, only that everybody 
else dies; and they know nothing else to be 
the end of this existence except death; but 
the reason is they have never tried to find 
out. " If death were natural then why does it 
cause such agony and anguish? Simply this 
because it should never be Nature never 
does that. It always brings pleasure and de- 
light, it never brings anything else. No, 
death is not natural. Then you might say, 

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if this God and all of this can do what you 
claim, then why has it been kept down, why 
has it not been found out before now. My 
answer is that it has. Several have tried to 
use it, but what is the result? They were 
looked upon as some poor, demented fool, 
some one to be felt badly for and, if he ad- 
vanced it would have been sent away and im- 
prisoned. They have all been stopped be- 
fore they had a chance to make use of it, and 
it has only been of late that people dared to 
advocate this power, and to make use of it; 
but at present there are hundreds who are 
doing it. It will, after this start and over- 
spread the earth. There will be a proof that 
death is not necessary. But you who have 
this hardship to put up with, take this com- 
fort, they have only left a machine that was 
becoming a detriment to them. They are 
around you always, they are guiding you, 
they are not up on some planet, where they 
stay awaiting your comin»g, they are with 
you, they are not dead to you, it is you are 
dead to them. At the very time when you 
said your last good-bye, at the very time you 
stood watching the cold, damp earth being 

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thrown upon their remains, they stood by 
and watched, and cried to comfort you, and 
to tell you that they were happy and free 
from pain, but the very same reason that 
caused their death, caused you not to hear 
them. You haven't life enough to see them 
and to hear them. 

You do not let the spirit have control 
enough over your body to see and hear 
them, or else you could talk to them as often 
as you wished. You could see them and pro- 
fit by their advice; but you do not put your- 
self in that condition. That is why you do 
not see them. 

Now, so long as you can fit yourself for 
this why not do it? It has been proved that 
it can be done. It is done now always by 
some and you can do it if you will, and you 
can prove this for yourself. The one thing 
that will bring our complete happiness is to 
do this, because it led you back into the way 
of nature. 



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CLAIRVOYANCE AND DREAMS. 



You often hear of things being predicted 
ahead of time, sometimes months and even 
years, but you do not believe it, you think it 
can't be anything but a fraud. But as the 
time goes on you are surprised by these 
things coming just as it was predicted but 
how in the world was it done ? You can't 
come to any other conclusion but that this 
man must have a very strong power and you 
just make up. your mind to let this person 
alone. But I can tell you in a very few 
words what this strange power is, and for 
the benefit of Bible believers, I will give it. 

If a man makes a prediction, it comes to 
pass, and this man tries to convince you that 
you should believe in other Gods, and tries 
to turn you against your own God, turn your 
ears from him, do not believe in him. This 
is where this strange power comes from. It 
comes from this man's God, and when other 
men make these predictions and try to make 
him believe that their knowledge came from 
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some other God, an unknown God, he turns 
his from' him, because he knows where it 
came from. It came from God; but from 
their own. He makes these predictions and 
finds out these things himself, so he knows 
where this man gets this from. He gets it 
from his own God, no other. It is the same 
with all, only one is a false prophet, the 
other a true one. 

If you want to be a clairvoyant you must 
get it from your own God, and not from a 
God you know nothing about. What do you 
call God ? A man that is somewhere on 
some planet, who hears all prayers and 
grants all requests, a universal God, a single 
man, who is God over all men, the God you 
hear of in church ? If there is such a God 
you know nothing about him, some one else 
has tried to get you not to believe in your 
own God, and has been telling you that God 
was a single man who created all and did all. 

You have believed him, you read per- 
haps, that you were not to listen to such 
tales told about a God, you know nothing 
about him; but still you have done it. Now 
don't say you know anything about such a 

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God for I say and can prove that you do not. 
What do you know about him, have you seen 
him, have you ever heard him speak, have 
you ever felt that he stood by you ? No. 
You have not. You just took some one else's 
word for it and what is more, it is a God that 
you never can, if you study till it turns your 
hair green, learn anything about for he is not 
here and never will be. To learn anything 
about a man you must either see or hear 
him, otherwise you take some one else's word 
for it and what is more, that which is a 
knowledge to another is not a knowledge to 
you until you experience the same, and we 
never were supposed to take another person 's 
word for anything unless they could prove it 
to us. 

This is where clairvoyance comes from. 
Prom a person's own God, a God they know, 
and if they do not, a God they can learn 
And it can learn anything for you, that is. in 
reason; but you do not listen to it. You be- 
lieve in a God you know nothing about, and 
the consequence is this, you remain in ignor- 
ance of what you should know. You can 
find out all things both for your own benefit 

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and for the benefit of others if you would 
listen to the God within you If you would 
give him control over your body you could do 
this, and in order to do that you must first 
learn what it is. It is your spirit and to 
listen to him you must make yourself 
spiritual. 

That is done by relaxing and getting in 
the quiet. Just relax every muscle and even 
your brain must be in a relaxed condition and 
not thinking of anything. Then things will 
begin to come to you, you will see pictures 
and you will receive impressions that certain 
things will come and will not be, etc. These 
things are coming from your spirit or your 
God, and you know what it sees, you must 
almost forget but that you are yourself a 
spirit and while in this condition you will see 
other spirits, hear what they say, converse 
with them. This is the clairvoyant condition. 

If you are going to make an investment 
and do not know what is best, j ast go to your- 
self and be quiet, forget but that you are a 
spirit and forget all that is around you, then 
wait for impressions, and the impression you 
receive is right. 

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Dreams come from the God within; but 
they are not able to make them clear to you 
and you get them in a little different way as 
a general rule, nevertheless you should al- 
ways take heed of them and guess as nearly 
as possible what they mean, and if anything 
comes up that is anything like your dream, 
leave it alone. 

Dreams also come from another spirit 
who wants to tell you something but unless 
dreams can be remembered very clearly do 
not bother with them. If they are clearly 
remembered they always mean something and 
that is the way you will see and hear things 
clairvoyantly, something like a dream. 



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FALSE MODESTY. 



If there is anything disgusting to the 
spirit world it is false modesty. Every part 
of one's body should be held in reverence. 
You should be proud of it. There is nothing 
so beautiful as a pure body and there is no 
more about any part of your body to be 
ashamed of than your face. It was all made 
by the same creator, and all made of the 
same flesh and blood, and no high minded 
person has or knows no such thing as false 
modesty. 

A person, if he is going to be spiritual, 
must be open and pure minded and to en- 
courage such a thing as false modesty is to 
encourage impure thoughts, and shows that 
you are not a moral man or woman. If you 
were moral you would never think of such a 
thing when you see any part of the human 
body, and if anyone is impure, or has a dis- 
eased body through some immoral act caused 
through the violation of one of nature's laws 
then I do not blame you for being ashamed of 

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your body. You can easily be excused if this 
is the case, but put it down for this, that when 
such a thing as false modesty exists in your 
mind there is some cause for it, either you 
are diseased or your thoughts run in an im- 
moral way, in a way they have no business 
to run. 

In some churches the belief is that you 
should not dance, and you will hear an evan- 
gelist saying that dancing is so corrupt and 
degrading to man, that it looks terrible, etc. 
Then ask them why it is they don't like 
dancing and what wrong there is in it, they 
will say: ''Well, there is no particular harm 
in it. It is good exercise; but it is the posi- 
tion,'' and one even went so far as to express 
himself in this way to a couple of young 
ladies who came to him to get his reasons 
for not believing in dancing. He said: 
"Well, girls, would you take that position 
with that young man on Main Street? Well, 
no they wouldn't. So he wanted to know 
what difference there was and then said : ' 'To 
make it a little plainer, would you, right 
here in this room, take that position with 
me?" Well, no they wouldn't and I suppose 

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the girls went away convinced that dancing 
was a wrong thing and that they had dis- 
graced themselves beyond redemption. This 
good man forgot to show up both sides of 
the question. 

As far as the position in the street and 
in the dance hall, in the dance hall it is un- 
derstood and in the street it is considered 
out of place or else it would not be. Is there 
anything about a man that a woman should 
be ashamed of? Is there anythirig about a 
woman that a man should be ashamed of? 
You who believe in a personal God, did he 
not create both, according to your belief? 
Why be ashamed of either of his creations? 
Did he so make either sex that they should 
be ashamed to touch each other? No. They 
should be as one, and things are as we make 
them. That position is disgraceful in the 
street because we make it so with our 
thoughts and it is opposite in the dance hall. 

Because a young man and young lady 
have that position dancing, is that a sign 
that evil thoughts are running through their 
mind? And what makes us think so, or those 
who are so terribly against it? It is simply 

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this, they are giving themselves away. They 
know that if they had that position with a 
lady that evil thoughts would go through 
their minds. They, of course, judge all peo- 
ple alike; but they are mistaken, if they 
never thought of such things they would not 
accuse others. They will tell you that them- 
selves. 

Now, they might say that this would be 
all right if everyone were as he should be; but 
what brings people to what they are? What 
is it if it is not such false laws to nature? 
Are you going to get everyone perfect be- 
fore you do this? This is the first thing that 
will go to destroy such thoughts, you have 
tried the other, it has failed completely. 

Others are so terribly shocked at low 
necked dresses. It is a terrible thing for a 
woman to show her neck and breast. I wish 
you would explain what the difference is be- 
tween the purity of the face and that of the 
neck and breast. Both are a part of the cre- 
ation, both are a part of nature, and there is 
nothing more beautiful than a pretty neck 
and breast. People never thought of such 
things or were not ashamed until they began 

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to sin. A baby is not ashamed until you put 
those false ideas into its head. If you did 
not it never would be. An animal never sins 
and they are not ashamed of themselves. It 
is we who are always praising God in the 
highest that are ashamed of his work. 



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CARD PLAYING. 



Card playing, like everything else, is 
made a wrong. You will hear especially in 
some churches, card playing very radically 
denounced, and like everything else, they fail 
to show up more than one side. I once at- 
tended a lecture where the speaker w r as giv- 
ing his experieuce in card playing. He told 
a little story about a woman with whom he 
was staying and who used to play cards with 
her little children. He told her what he 
thought of the matter, the terrible sin she 
was committing by doing this, and that all 
three of her little sons would turn out 
gamblers. But I can tell you this, that if a 
woman never teaches her children anything 
worse than card playing by her actions, her 
children will get along all right as far as 
instruction will carry them. This woman 
could see farther than that. She knew that 
if she expected to keep her children around 
her, she must provide some pleasure for 
them. She could see that it was a great deal 

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better for her little sons to be sitting around 
her playing an innocent game of cards than 
it was for them to be running around the 
streets getting valuable information from un- 
trained children, and receiving vulgar and 
impure thoughts from boys who looked at 
nature in an impure light. 

Besides, card playing will train a boy to 
calculate better than anything else, and if a 
boy is not inclined to gamble, he won't 
gamble anyway, no matter how well he can 
play cards. If a boy learns to play cards as 
an innocent amusement he will always con- 
sider it so, and if he is always shown and led 
to believe that cards are meant for gambling, 
cheating, and nothing else he will always 
consider it in this light. When he gets in 
need of means and in a pinch, the card table 
will be one of his first thoughts. He knows 
that he can't play cards, and he knows this 
also, that he can soon learn and if a boy is 
inclined to gamble he will. He does not need 
a deck of cards to do it with. He can gamble 
in worse ways than with cards. 

It is just like this, people are always 
wiliing to show up the bad points in things, 

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and never willing to show up the innocence 
there could be in it. Some would never find 
out that there was bad in anything if it was 
not always shown up to them and the good 
of it left out. 

When a child grows up always hearing 
the things that could be made good of shown 
up to a disadvantage, he first thinks: ''Well 
now that is wrong." He next thinks and 
broods over that wrong until he wonders how 
it would be if he did that and then he thinks 
he will try it just for once. The first thing 
you know he is practicing that vice. If the 
good were shown up he would ponder over it 
in that way until he was grown up, until he 
was old enough to know better. Besides he 
would, if after a certain age find out the 
wrong of that thing, know both sides of the 
story he could decide between the good and 
the bad, which he would choose, and know- 
ing the good longest, would more than likely 
follow that. 

There is a great deal of harm done in 
always teaching children the wrong of every- 
thing. Then you might say as some do, that 
ds are such a foolish pastime for big folks 
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to take up; but people take the bright side of 
life as well as the serious. It is just as harm- 
ful to be too serious as it is to go to extremes 
in the other way. And if a man or woman is 
in trouble or does a great deal of worrying, 
there is nothing that will make he or she for- 
get their trouble for a few moments like a 
good, jolly game of cards. During that mirth 
their spirit gets a little chance to rest and to 
build up soul power, and in many cases it 
prevents insanity, paralysis, etc. Of course, 
cards are not the only thing that will bring 
mirth; but some people would enjoy them 
where others would enjoy something else. 
If they do then I say there can't be any harm 
in a game of cards. 



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THE DOWNFALL OF THE SPIRIT. 



Many people believe in reincarnation in 
this way, they think that when we die, our 
spirit, ,if we have not lived as we should, is 
reincarnated into the body of an animal, that 
it takes the body of a dog, of some bird, or 
any animal according to the extent the per- 
son has degraded himself. Their degraded 
condition is shown in what ever animal they 
take, if they are very low they take that of a 
low animal. 

But what puzzles one is this, what do 
those who are pure and high minded take if 
the others take that of an animal? In that 
case the high must take something else. If 
the low take a body the high must also take 
one. And they will say there is no end. If 
that is so what do we take after we leave 
that of a dog, or cow, or something of that 
sort? 

This theory seems inconsistent to me, 
and I do not think it would be according to 
nature for a man to first take a man's body 

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and then take that of a lower animal, because 
it is just like this, if you are a man once that 
is what you always will be. It is just as im- 
possible to turn the body of a man into that 
of a dog, as it is to turn the spirit of a man 
into that of a dog. Then if we were to go 
that way, we would, after we entered the 
body of a dog, understand the language of a 
person and could remember what we knew 
while a man, for the spirit never forgets* 
That is where the hell comes in. It is that 
we always remember what we have done and 
the disadvantages we have put ourselves to 
through what we have done. 

A dog would be just as smart as we, and 
could think and plan as we do. He could 
learn to read, in fact, he could do anything 
with the power of reason that we can do, and 
we know that to be inconsistent, because as 
far as the body is concerned, if it had the 
same spirit one would be just as smart as 
another, for it is not the body that constitutes 
a person, it is the spirit. 

In that case there would be no hell, for 
the dog would never know but that he was 
always a dog. He could not feel badly over 

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that, and if he did remember that he was a 
man he would remember everything and we 
know that he does not. 

What ever the spirit learns it never for- 
gets. What ever you do, either good or bad 
you never forget. If we did, what would be 
the use of striving for years as some do and 
then have a very few years use of it ? It 
would go on that way for years perhaps you 
would forget all about it. You cannot re- 
member it; but if it happens that there is 
need for the use of that knowledge, you sit 
down and think of it. At first you do not 
remember a thing; but as you sit there and 
study, it all comes to you. Do you suppose 
that your body remembered it ? No you 
learned it and your spirit never forgot it. 
When you sat there you recollected it, and 
what I mean by that is your spirit transferred 
it to the body again and you say "Oh! I 
recollect." 

Some people who play music will play 
by note a couple of times and have not the 
least idea that they could play that piece 
without the music. If they should look at 
the keyboard they could not strike the first 
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note; but sometimes they sit after dark and 
finger the keys of the piano, and to their 
surprise they play the piece right off. They 
say : " Oh! my hands are so used to it they 
know just where to go and what notes to 
strike. " Is there any sense in your hand if 
it was not for your brain ? You could not 
play that piece when you looked at the key- 
board and that shows it was not your brain 
that remembered it. It was simply the spirit 
that remembered it and controlled your 
hands to play it. The reason it could do that 
in the dark and not in the light was that in 
the dark you were more able to concentrate 
than you were in the light. 

You can not only recollect things that 
you have learned in this way; but you can 
recollect things that other people have 
learned by making yourself spiritual. Your 
spirit can find out all things and give them to 
you if you are spiritual enough. You would 
not have to study till you were worn out to 
learn things if you were spiritual. 

Of course, it would be harder to transfer 
a thing to your body that you had never 
thought of than it would to transfer a thing 

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to you that you had already made a study of, 

because it would have been to you once and 

could easily come again; but the other would 

be just as easy, and even easier, if you were 

spiritual. 

Some people say: "If people could do 

that and were like that, what kind of a world 

would this be ? Everybody would know just 

as much as the other and there would be no 

men to do different kinds of work. They 

would all be able to do the best and that is 

what they would all aim for." But that is 

no excuse for a just man to make. Every 

man was created equal and has just as much 

right to be smart as you have. We were 

created to make something out of ourselves. 

No one was ever supposed to kill himself 

with hard study in order to adapt himself to 

some little thing because in that way he 

loses his health and if we lived a thousand 

years we would not know so much after all. 

Everyone could not get one thing to do. He 

would have to take the next best and that 

would stop him from always having the 

knowledge. Every one would stand an equal 

chance, the world would not be in the hands 

of a few as it is today. 

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People would not need to make a machine 
out of themselves in order to get a piece of 
bread and butter to eat. If they did every 
man would take bis turn, and it would not 
always be one man that would be dragging 
out a miserable existence. 

As far as the man going into an animal 
of some kind, I will say this, that even if they 
did not go aud take the form of a dog, there 
are some of tbem so degraded that they are 
are even lower than an animal, and a great 
many of them, if not so low, are just as low. 
And for this very reason every man does not 
have his rights. When one is down a person 
that is able to help him up again will* not do 
it. It is all caused through a man being born 
without anything, without a chance, and 
others that have the chance, keeping him 
where he is. You hear preached every day 
that if you believe, you will be saved; but for 
hundreds of years people have been believ- 
ing those things and still they are in just as 
bad a condition today as they were years ago. 
Some of the strongest believers are just as 
poor, just as low in thought. They believe 
all their lives and still they die in the same 

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condition as they were in to begin with. 
They look haggard and pale so it doesn't 
help them in that way. Yet they are believ- 
ing those same ideas they believed years ago 
when there can be improvements on every- 
thing. No matter how- strong a believer they 
are, they die anyway and always have. When 
Jesus said: "Believe as I do and you can do 
what I do," and never died, that shows and 
proves they are not of the correct belief, the 
belief of Christ, it shows that there must be 
some misunderstanding somewhere. 

There is no man who is true spiritualist 
belief that stays in the same condition in 
which he began with. Their thoughts reach 
farther, they feel better, they can make 
themselves well, if they will, it all depends 
upon the extent of their belief and knowledge 
in that line what and where they are in life. 
If they are good ones they can make money 
for themselves, they can increase the God 
within them, they need not be sick, in fact, 
they always die with more and in a better 
condition than they started. With the other 
belief it is sometimes worse when they get 
through than when they began. 

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Now, do not call people who go insane 
over spiritualism, true spiritualists. They 
are not. They never were. That is just a 
superstition that first started and through 
people not understanding it, they always 
carry the same idea. All make fun of it be- 
fore they know anything about it, the same 
with ignorance always. When a person 
makes fun of spiritualism, put it down that 
that person does not know anything about it. 
for if he did he could never make light of it, 
When once understood it is a beautiful and 
elevating belief. 



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A PERSONAL GOD. 



I think by this time people who have 
read this book have concluded what kind of 
a God I believe in, although I have never 
said directly what or who he is. Some may 
say that I believe in a personal God, and so I 
do; but in a different way from the way it is 
generally believed. 

I do not believe in a God that is one man, 
because when I reason it out for myself it 
seems inconsistent to me. If there is a God 
who is one man, one spirit, who listens to all 
prayers and who sees to their being answer- 
ed, I say if he listens to these on a Sunday 
night at about the same time, he must listen 
to the prayers of thousands of ministers, who 
are praying for help. I do not see how it 
could be possible for one man to do all that. 

You may say that it is not for you to see, 
it is a miracle to you and that it is beyond 
your understanding. But if a thing is beyond 
my understanding I will not have anything to 
do with it. I will take something that is 
within my reach. He would be no God of 

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justice that would punish me for not believing 
that which is beyond my understanding. 

If God is as you say, one spirit that loves 
us all, he is not a God of justice, neither does 
he love us all. I cail prove this, for if he 
loved us all we never would be in the condi- 
tion we are in today, some enjoying life, 
others trying to serve him and dragging out 
a life of misery. He is not trying us in any 
such way if he loves us as you say he does. 
He would know that no man can make any- 
thing of himself while in misery, and I can 
prove to you in hundreds of ways that God is 
not one man. 

/^ I believe in a personal God in this way, 
ffesus said : " God is within you, " and I con 
sider that makes a personal God. My God 
that is within me is my personal God. Now 
do not understand me in this way, that in 
reality I do not believe in a God for I believe 
in a God power. I believe that after we 
leave this earth we live under the laws of a 
God power, and so under the laws of what 
you might call a God. It is just like this, we 
do not live under our president, we live 
under the laws of this country. All the laws 

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and people become a power and I believe the 
God power to be something like this. It is 
simply a good, the good of all that we live 
under and no God in the form of a man. 

Of course, there is a man who is highly 
progressed, more so than we; but I do not 
believe that he has one thing to do with us. 
He is not a perfect man and never will be. 
He is trying to get as high as possible and 
has all he can attend to without us. If there 
were an Almighty God like a man, then we 
would all strive for progression he has, then 
we would stop. What would be the use of 
Irving forever then without an aim ? We 
would be perfect and would have nothing 
more to do. No we will always exist and 
always progress, no man is perfect and never 
will be. Some say God is a principle. Others 
say that any one who is living under the idea 
that God is a principle, is living under a lie. 
But I say and what is more I can prove, that 
God is a principle. Anything that is good is 
a principle. Anything that is good is a prin- 
ciple of God, it is part of God. All good 
powers are a God principle, and God is a 
power, is a part of every man, a part of 

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every* good principle, and thus God is a 
principle, a good one. 

But in almost every church today is 
taught hell principles. They are all show- 
ing up the wrong of everything, instead of 
the good. What is the use of my knowing 
the wrong of anything ? Why not just know 
the good ? If I never know anything else I 
will never do auything else. 

I heard a certain man say the other day, 
that in the City of Zion people always lived 
under the rule of God, and that nothing 
wrong was ever done there. I admired all 
of *the principles he showed me; except this 
one, the same one, that they show up the 
wrong side of things. A lady asked if peo- 
ple married there. "Oh! certainly, with 
the consent of the doctor, and they kiss after 
they are married and not before. If a young 
man kisses a girl there before they are 
married, he is sent out of the city." I con- 
sider that the source of a corrupt thought. 
Is there anything wrong in touching your 
lips to those of one you love before marriage? 
/* Love is the marriage of God, the connec- 
[ tion of the two souls and the two spirits. It 

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is a passion that should create noble 
thoughts, noble ideas, high and far reaching 
aims. Until this is experienced everything 
is in its unnatural state. But when it is ex- 
perienced, the music is sweet, the flowers are 
sweet and seem to fold out a smile that 
speaks to the soul, speaks words of purity 
that are inexpressible by this tongue of clay. 
Love is pure and too high, too divine to be 
expressed by us in our state. It shows us 
the workings of God and his laws, and noth- 
ing can express its grandeur but the words of 
uature, the words of music, the words 
flayrefs: 



Then why should you refrain from ex- 
pressing these thoughts, why should you re- 
frain from acting out this law of God by kiss- 
ing the one who was the cause of these 
beautiful thoughts and sights being created 
within you ? Why not show your gratitude 
to her or to him for awakening your soul and 
spirit to the laws of God ? Yes, this is a law 
of God, and to refrain from expressing this 
before the law of man takes place is a sin. 
What has the law of man to do with this ? 
Only to keep respect while living under those 

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laws. Why have you any more right to kiss 
your wife than you had before you married 
her, only by the laws of the land, and letting 
these thoughts run through your mind de- 
stroys the laws of God. ""> 

Why should evil thoughts run through 
your mind because you put your lips to those 
of one you love ? It should create, and does 
create noble thoughts. You are happy now, 
you never were before, and when you put 
your arms around one who is your mate, let 
your thoughts run high and pure as the 
morning air, let it bring purity if you never 
thought of such a thing before, for if never 
before, you will now see purity and nature. 

If any one says that evil thoughts run 
through your mind because you express that 
passion, it is because they have not yet ex- 
perienced that power of God, and perhaps 
they are not capable of doing so. Be proud 
that you are capable of experiencing this 
grand thing and let nothing interfere. 

Young men and girls, prepare yourselves 
that when you have this experience you may 
be ready for it. So that you can kiss the one 
you love with a pair of pure lips, throw 

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around their neck a pair of pure arms, and 
feed upon the fumes of the God power. 
There is no harm in it. 

Then again, this man said : "We do not 
employ the common working girls in our 
factories. We want purity there." That is 
a great injustice to the poor, w T orking girl 
when some of the purest are among them. If 
they were not pure they would not be slav- 
ing their lives out for a mere existence. The 
purity of a person is not shown on the out 
side especially in their clothes. 

Although I have spoken of love in what 
I call its divine way and as it should be, I do 
not say that a girl should be too free with a 
man. There are so many men in the world 
without honor, who are full of deception and 
who would do anything to get the best of a 
girl.- I say there is no harm in kissing be- 
fore marriage, neither is there; but girls 
must be sure it is an honorable man with 
whom she associates. She must be sure it is 
love on his side as well as on hers. 

When a man begins telling you that it is 
impossible lor him to live without you, that 
he will take his life etc. he is not in love with 

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you. He wants to force you and you want to 
bestow your affection upon a man with a 
stronger will power than that. When a man 
can 't live at all on account of your not yield- 
ing to his wishes the second day or week he 
met you, he is either a man with a weak will 
power or else he wants to force things and 
he will make you sorry of your bargain if 
you marry him. 

If you allow a man to show his affection 
for you in a respectable way and he then 
asks greater privileges, he is deceiving you 
for no man who loves you will ask you to do 
anything that would tend to lower yourself 
in your own estimation, or in the estimation 
of any one else. If he loves you he will not 
ask you to do anything that would cause you 
to take the least chance whatever. 

Beware of men with dull, expressionless 
eyes, and all men who show their affection 
on too short acquaintance. Girls are so apt 
to believe what men tell them, and to yield 
to their persuasions, and many a poor girl 
has her life ruined through this. 

Some men will promise everything under 
the sun to a girl when he does not mean one 

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word of it, arid then when he gets you in 
trouble he will leave you to trouble it out 
yourself. When a girl is ruined everybody 
knows it and blames her altogether. A boy 
can go on just the same and he knows it. He 
can get out while a girl never can because 
she is known wherever she goes. 

Then again, do not get a misunderstand- 
ing of my meaning and think that it means 
to kiss every man you happen to like or have 
any attraction for. Neither should you get 
fickle and show it to others. Love is a thing 
that should be held sacred within yourself. 

Many people will say that love is caused 
through amativeness, and they call the desire 
to gratify their animal passions, love. That 
is not love, nor even an imitation of love. 
That is selfishness and sometimes tends to 
brutality. Love is self sacrificing, you will 
do anything for the one you love that would 
be to their advantage. Talk about not living 
without some one you love, you can do any- 
thing, go from them forever if it was better 
for them that you should do so. The other 
is not love and should never go by that name. 



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POWER OF THOUGHT. 



It is wonderful what power the mind has 
over our body or over the body of anyone 
else. Some say it is impossible for the mind 
to have any power over the body, but if they 
think, or ever half think, they would know 
that it does. For the benefit of those who 
have had no experience in this line, I will 
give some of the common occurrences that 
happen in every day life. That will prove 
the wonderful power the mind has over the 
body 

For instance, one of your dear ones dies. 
What is the result? We are at once seized 
with terror and agony beyond description 
and we cannot eat, we get poor, we dwindle 
away in health until that state of mind ceases. 
Then we come to our old selves again, and 
as our enjoyment increases, so we increase in 
other ways. What does this? The mind. 
Then again, a secret kept by one that con- 
cerns some crime that has been committed 
will drag us down until we are perfect 

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wrecks. What does this? The power of the 
mind. 

Then sometimes we receive a terrible 
fright, one so great that we are numbed, we 
cannot move. Simply because the mind is 
in that state, so is our body. It has happen- 
ed that the hair has been turned gray within 
a few minutes by the power of the mind. So 
it has been proved that the mind can do any- 
thing with the body. It can, by being kept 
in a quiet state, build up the body, or by the 
opposite it can tear the body down. 

In this same way, all our disasters hap. 
pen. Why are we sick? It is because the 
mind is not allowed to do its work. Why do 
we die and leave our bodies? Oar mind 
causes it. It has not been running as it 
should for years, and the final result is, it 
becomes too weak to keep or support a body. 
It fails to do its duty and see that the body 
is drawing its life, its machine wears out, the 
disaster comes, we die. 

Now, readers, you have proved what the 

mind can do in a bad state, so try and see 

what work it can do by keeping it in the 

right direction. It can degrade you, it can 

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purify you, it can cause you to lose power, it 
can give power, it can Cduse sickness, it can 
cure you, it can kill you, it can give you life, 
for whatever there is bad in a wrong direc- 
tion there is good in the opposite direction. 
If you can, by not using your forces, bring 
sickness upon you, you can, by using them, 
bring health, happiness, and even wealth. 

If you are suddenly seized with some ill- 
ness, don't run for a doctor or drug company. 
You made yourself sick, cure yourself, and 
do it with your mind. Don't fall upon your 
knees and pray to some God to cure it; don't 
cause sickness yourself and then wait for 
some man whom you believe to be almighty, 
to go to the trouble of curing you, do it your- 
self. 

Pray to the God within yourself for help, 
he is your almighty. Demand him to perfect 
a cure, and if he does not do it at first, de- 
mand it of him again. Say "I will get well," 
and stay with it, don't weaken and think that 
perhaps he cannot do it. Have faith, yes, 
faith. , That is using your God and if he is to 
cure you, you must use him. Don't be as the 
sinking man who was lacking faith. Raise 

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yourself, give yourself power, then when you 
hear some man say: "I am sick. I am sink- 
ing," you can say: "Oh, ye of little faith, 
raise thyself , you are well," and lo and be- 
hold he will be well. 

As I have said before, you can com- 
mand anything that is desired by you, if you 
only have the faith and by faith I mean, 
strength of spirit. You have a magnetic 
force that your spirit can command, and send 
it even to the ends of the earth, and there 
take its effect. There is no need of such suf- 
fering if we would only use the power we 
possess. If one that is of interest to you, 
takes sick, cure him, do it with your mind 
and this is how to do it. 

Put your hands on that patient's affected 
parts and command the trouble to leave, send 
your magnetic force through him, put life in 
those parts, put your own life there and com- 
mand it to work. If the blood is slow and 
does not circulate well through those parts, 
put your hands there, rub them down and 
say: "The blood is rushing through these 
parts and is carrying away this trouble " At 
the same time be sure that your command is 

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being fulfilled, and you can easily be sure for 
it will be done. The more you do this the 
stronger you will become. 

But of course, do not expect that you can 
replace a shrunken limb in five minutes. It 
takes time for nature to do her work and do 
' not expect it done any sooner than it could 
rebuild properly. I can give further instruc- 
tions to auy one who wishes to make a pro- 
fession or business of this, by their writing 
to me for them. I will give them free of 
charge, but this is all that is needed to keep 
yourself in health if they are carefully fol- 
lowed. 

Stop the terrible things that are happen- 
ing Qvery day with your God, learn the 
power of man and as I have said before, 
learn thyself, and there is no need of any de- 
pending upon others. But there are very 
few who do this, they would rather learn 
something else first, and the result is crime 
and death. Why don't you look and reason 
for yourself? Can't you see that if your God 
or mind will cause horrible things such as 
fright, etc., it will do good? Look around 
yourself, open your eyes to your own power 

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and use it. Depend upon yourself and not 
upon others. Animals even cure themselves 
by nature. You can do anything in that way 
that you can. 

When you have a pain you throw your 
hands to the part paining. Why? Because 
it is your instinct that prompts you that 
there is something about your hand that will 
stop the pain. Try and find out what that 
something is. It is your magnetism and it 
can be used by your mind. 



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A YOUNG MAN'S FIRST DUTY. 



A young man's or boy's first duty is to 
prepare himself for after life by making him- 
self pure. It is a mother's duty along with a 
father to see that their son is taught the 
truth of his creation from their own lips, 
and not allow him to run around and get this 
knowledge from boys who will give it to him 
in a vulgar manner. If a daughter or son 
turns out bad, it is sometimes the fault of 
the parents. They have lied to them, told 
them untruths about what it is their right to 
know, and the result is this, they go and 
hear it in a wrong way and find that their 
father and mother have told them a false- 
hood. The question arises, why did they? 
They were ashamed of my creation, and so I 
must be, and from the first they are led to 
consider their creation a crime rather than a 
beautiful art of nature. 

If your son asks you these questions, tell 
him. Tell him his duty is to develope these 
powers of creation so that they are pure and 

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able to bring a perfect offspring into the 
world. Tell him the good of these things, 
show him the beauty of this work of nature, 
leave the other out, he doesn't need that at 
all. If he never learns the bad that can 
come, he is not very likely to ever commit 
himself to these sins. 

After the age of, or about the time a boy 
begins to develope into manhood, he begins 
to think of matrimony, and if his ambitions 
lie in that direction let him prepare himself 
for that. Remember this, that you have no 
right to ask an innocent girl to live a life 
away with you unless you are pure both in 
mind and in body. You would not want a 
sister of yours to enter into matrimony with 
a man who wtts impure in body or who al- 
lowed his thoughts to run in an immoral way. 
It is your duty to see that you are in a con- 
dition to give birth to a perfect child, for if 
that child turns out an idiot, it is a fault of 
yours, something that you have done is the 
cause. If that child turns out to be deformed 
from birth, it is some fault of yours, and you 
have no right to bring such misery upon a 
mother as that. 

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Then again the mistake is made by mar- 
rying before you are able to support a wife. 
You have no right to ask a woman to be your 
wife just to be a servant. She can make a 
living anywhere as far as that goes. What 
right have you to take a wife to lead her into 
a miserable existence, carting her from one 
place to another in some old lumber wagon? 
Would you have a child of yours, a sister of 
yours, served thus? You have no right to 
bring oifspring into the world without means 
with which to give them advantages that are 
necessary for their progression. It is a 
shame, a sin, to bring a child here'and let it 
go without the advantages it should have. 

There is a great deal that should be con- 
sidered before entering into anything of that 
kind. You should always be able to look 
after the comforts of your wife, and if you 
do not, it is because you do not love her. 
You could never say a cross word to one you 
love and make her life miserable. Do not 
think that because a woman is married to you 
that she belongs to you. She is no man's 
property, although men, a great many of 
them seem to think so, and will order them 

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around like a beast of burden of some kind. 
Do not get conceited enough to think you 
were created first and women should come 
after you. Everyone has a right to live their 
own life. 

Some young men w T ill make fun and pass 
remarks about women who pass them and 
will say things disrespectful. You have no 
right to have a wife, you do not deserve one, 
even if the woman be a fallen one, you have 
no right to say disrespectful things about 
her, and then expect the love of a woman. 
Remember that co every fallen woman there 
- are ten fallen men. They are no worse than 
a fallen man, not one bit. And you do not 
know the cause of it, perhaps it was caused 
through some man she loved, and even if it 
was her fault, she is the daughter of some 
mother. Help her to get up again instead o f 
pushing her down, do it for the sake of her 
mother if not for hers. She is a woman, so 
was your mother. Have manhood enough to 
help her up again, if it is in your power. 
When she does rise again, consider her just 
as good as if her downfall had never occur- 
red. 

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Some of these downfallen women have 
gone through what no tongue can describe, 
they have been deceived, turned from their 
own father's door, turned from employment 
of all kinds. What is left? Nothing but to 
fall lower with no help to rise again. They 
got down, we kept them there, and it is the 
duty of every young man to lend a helping 
hand to these women if they wish it instead 
of pushing them low T er as they do. 



THE WORD OF WISDOM, 



What does the word of wisdom imply? 
It means the right way of living. Then if 
the word of wisdom means the right way of 
living, it means wisdom in everything con- 
cerning the human system. Now this is the 
word of wisdom in the eyes of thousands: 

You must not drink any kind of stimu- 
lating liquors. 

You must not drink coffee or tea. 

You must not chew or smoke, or use to- 
bacco in any way or form. 

There is the word of wisdom as the Mor- 
mon Church of Jesus Christ' of Latter Day 
Saints looks at it, and if you offer them a cup 
of coffee, they will not accept it, ask them 
why, "Oh, I keep the word of wisdom." 

But that kind of a word of wisdom is very 
easily kept, and I would be ashamed to say 
that I was keeping the word of wisdom and still 
know that that was all I was doing towards 
it. Look at them and see if they are looking 
better for it. Well, yes, it looks better to 

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see a clean mouth than one with the corners 
and chin discolored by tobacco. It looks 
better to see lungs that are pure from tobacco 
smoke and teeth that are not discolored by 
tobacco. It looks better to see them walking 
along the street erect than it does to see 
them staggering along with their brain in a 
demented condition. But with all of this you 
are not keeping the word of wisdom, or half 
keeping it. 

You look at this man again. He looks 
tired, he -is getting worn out. He fills him- 
self with other drugs that do him harm, and 
he has as much sickness as anyone else. If 
he does, he is not keeping the word of wis- 
dom. Instead of coffee or tea, he fills him- 
self up with the corpse of some poor innocent 
animal. There is plenty to eat that corre- 
sponds with the wants of nature without 
taking the life of some animal. Flesh was 
not supposed to be eaten by us. It is wicked, 
a sin, it is barbarous to take the life of some- 
thing and then eat the flesh. A refined per- 
son cannot do it. They cannot take anything 
away that goes beyond their power to return. 
You have no right to do so just because you 

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have the power. You are brutal to take ad- 
vantage of something helpless and under 
your power. 

To live up to the word of wisdom you 
must live up to nature in every way, and 
none of us live in the ways of nature Do 
not disgrace its meaning by calling these few 
things the "Word of Wisdom.*' When you 
live strictly to the word of wisdom you can 
say: "I am a perfect man. I live to nature 
in every way, both in food, mind, and all that 
I can do. I can do the things that Jesus did. " 
For all these things, everything good, high, 
or noble m any way is the word of wisdom. 
You are not very apt to be a man of the word 
of wisdom. That is what I wish to impress, 
to get everyone as well as myself, to live as 
nearly as possible to the rules of nature, or 
the word of wisdom, and, in order to do it 
all, we must keep trying. No man can start 
at once and do it. He can only do a part of 
it. And to allow other men to say what you 
are to do in order to live up to the word of 
wisdom is a wrong doing. 

Make out your own word of wisdom as 
far as you are able to live to it, and then 

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carry it farther. Every man cannot keep the 
same word of wisdom. They can all strive for 
it; but there will always be one ahead of an- 
other, therefore, there can be no word of 
wisdom made for any man to start with; but 
it should be made by each individual to start 
with and strive for. Strive to be perfect. 
There is nothing so beautiful as a pure and 
perfect man or woman. You can paint every- 
thing you can see; but you will never attain 
to anything that will reach the height of 
beauty that the painting of a human being 
will attain. 

You can paint all things, and try to find 
the thing that takes the prize as to homliness 
and at last you will grant the prize to the 
piece that was supposed to be the represen- 
tation of a human being. A man can rise to 
the highest, both in nature and in beauty of 
all kinds. He can go to the lowest. When 
he raises in one thing, he raises some in all. 
When he falls in one, he falls in all, so make 
it your aim to raise the highest of all. It is 
your duty, your mission, your right; but it is 
not your right to fall, because you cannot 
fall without involving others neither can you 

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raise without involving others. These are the 
principles of true spiritualism. 

All things that are a benefit to man are 
principles of spiritualism. That is why we 
cannot commune with the spirit world, we 
are going against the laws of nature, and 
nature makes us a strong spirit, a strong 
soult the other weakens it. Some make the 
assertion that it is easier to do wrong than to 
do good. I say the opposite, we will com- 
pare them. You start on the wrong side, 
you go down, you become impure, you lose 
power, you lose respect, you lose ambition, 
you commit crimes wo^se and worse. Your 
conscience smites you, it causes you to de- 
spair and you are thrown into intense agony 
of mind and body, you are an animal instead 
of a man, you sicken, you die. People are 
glad for a good riddance. You then lead out 
a hell in the spirit world, you have lost all 
your opportunities and must regain them with 
hard labor. 

Then we will take the other side. You 
advance, you become pure, you gain power, 
you gain respect, you gain ambition, you 
gain life, you do good to everyone along with 

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yourself, you gain health, wealth and perpet- 
ual youth. People are sorry when you go. 
They remember you. You are something 
and you have a heaven; you ate a man 
Which is the easier? Good is strength, and 
the easier always. Try it and see. 



UNIVERSAL LOVE. 



One of the strongest principles of spirit- 
ualism is universal love. Love, being one of 
the God powers and principles, one of the 
strongest of all powers, is a spiritual prin- 
ciple. Love is strength, it elevates, it gives 
and creates nobler thoughts, in fact to have 
a thought take good effect, it must be sent 
through good, which would be caused through 
universal love. 

Now, by this I do not mean for a man to 
fall in love with every woman he sees. * That 
is not love in any form. That is fickleness, 
it is more to gratify a selfish desire. Neither 
do I mean for a woman to fall in love with 
every man she sees, as I have said, that is 
not love in any form. It is a shame to cast 
such insinuations on the strongest power of 
God by calling that fickle, selfish nothing, 
love. Love is a power. The other is simply 
nothing only an imaginary idea that comes 
and goes like a feather in a whirlwind. 

By universal love I mean, love or respect 
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for all noble thoughts or things, respect for 
all mankind, love for rights, love for beauty, 
love for nature, love and respect for. all the 
human family. • A man who cultivates uni- 
versal love within himself, brings himself to 
this knowledge, that he cannot hurt or harm 
any man without doing more harm to himself. 
Whenever you do a man harm, you bite off 
your nose to spite your face. You cannot do 
harm of any kind without degrading your- 
self. You cannot think of a wrong act with- 
out getting a knowledge of that act, then 
your spirit is weakened, it has lost some of 
its power, it goes on a downward progres- 
sion, you lose the purity and straightforward 
look, people do not feel right around you, 
they lose all respect for you, and in a thous- 
and ways you harm yourself. 

Honesty is another of the principles that 
go under the head of universal love. A dis- 
honest man shall always receive his reward. 
To see man, to learn all his habits, paying spe 
cial attention to the bad ones, then going off 
and telling your wife and children about 
them, all the neighbors, and all the people 
who deal with you in a professional way, 

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discussing them, and giving advice about 
dealing with such a man, a man with such 
habits, in order to get all his trade yourself, 
is not universal love. 

If you are going to discuss any man's 
qualities, take his good ones, admire them in 
him and if you get a chance do this man a 
good turn. Do this, help him up instead of 
pushing him deeper in the mire. He is a 
man. He is some mother's son. He is as 
dear to some one as your child is to you. In 
doing him this good turn, you build for your- 
self a noble character, a noble and powerful 
spirit, and it will show itself on your face, it 
is something that no man can take from you. 

That is what I call a priesthood, a strong, 
powerful, and noble spirit, with a strong soul 
to do its work. I have heard men of the 
Mormon belief now, I do not say all of them, 
run a man down to the lowest, take the ad- 
vantage of others at every opportunity, curse 
anchswear, tell falsehoods, allow evil thoughts 
to run through their minds, smoke, chew, 
drink, and say: "I have the priesthood and 
my wife has not, therefore, she should be 
under me." Oh! what nerve a man of that 

IT.') 



kind has, and if that is the priesthood or if a 
man of that kind has the priesthood, I say- 
that the priesthood is one of the greatest 
curses that was ever put within the reach of 
man. 

If I were a woman and the only chance 
for me was to be ruled under such a priest- 
hood, I would go to the first place I could get 
a rope and hang myself, if I had a child and 
that child proved to be a girl, I would end its 
misery by giving it chloroform. If I were a 
woman and thought that a God was so unjust 
as to give me life and then put a man over 
me I would curse that God, I would take my- 
self as far from him as it were possible to get, 
I would refuse any man who thought thus, 
the privilege of my company, I would simply 
tell men to find their equal with which to as- 
sociate. He must go to man, he could not 
find it among women. 

I do not consider any of these principles, 
principles of universal love. They are all 
degrading, a disadvantage to our spirits and 
the spirits of the spirit world. We are all 
equal; men and women. We are none of us 
more than half. A woman is as large a half 

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as man. Some will go into one of the most 
degrading, filthy, shameful, sinful vices, po- 
lygamy, and then say: ' k I have the priest- 
hood and women must be under me. I have 
a right to use women as a machine. " That 
is what you say when you advocate polyg- 
amy. Worse than that; you use her to com- 
mit sin with, to degrade humanity with. 

1 think it was time that universal love 
was advocated. It is time the human race 
took a change and not be flooded out by sin 
as it was in the days of Noah. Build your- 
self an ark of good influence so as to be pro- 
tected from the waters of sin, as he was. 
Why did his ark shelter so many animals? 
Because it was an ark of good, and good in- 
fluence will give shelter to thousands. Ani- 
mals especially need our sympathy, and a part 
of that universal love. We take advantage 
of their weakness. 

If a tramp comes to your door, and you 
turn him away because some other tramp 
came, you gave him food, and he threw it 
away or failed to appreciate your kindness — 
this is not universal love, it is not good will 
to your creation. He was a man, or at least 

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was to begin with. He has reason, feeling, 
and all of these things, he belongs to some 
one and you do not know what you would do 
under similar conditions. 

Look at your own son and say to your- 
self: "If you, my son, should ever, through 
someching, get started on the downward 
path, and you should go to someone's back 
door, half frozen, threadbare, and almost 
starved, and should ask for something to eat, 
what would I wish them to say, yes or no?' ? 
No matter what their faults may be there 
will a feeling of sympathy creep through 
your veins and you will say: "I would wish 
them to say yes, of course. *' Then remember 
this, look at this poor, downfallen creature 
and say: "You are somebody's son. No 
matter what you are, you belong to some- 
body." Consider the feelings of others. 
They are keen to all who must bear them. 

And now what is universal love? It is 
peace to thee, good will to men. Practice it. 
You shall receive your reward. It is one of 
God's powers. Hold it sacred. 



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MARRIAGE. 



Marriage, as it is thought of and con- 
sidered today, is an outrage to the spirit 
world. Through the way that marriage is 
looked upon by some, the spirit is drowned 
out, and is stopped from its proper develop- 
ment. The first thing a girl or boy hears, as 
soon as he or she is large enough to under- 
stand is: "Who is your girl?" or 'Who is 
your fellow?" etc. 

They learn the first thing the distinction 
of sex, when they should associate merely as 
friends and playmates. When a young boy 
or girl reaches the age of about fifteen, he or 
she begins to think and to ponder upon mar- 
riage, without the least idea of what the word 
marriage means, or should mean. When a 
young man sees a girl pass along the street 
the first thing that enters his head is mar- 
riage, "That would make me a good wife." 
He never thinks whether he is qualified to 
have a wife yet or not. If a girl sees a young 
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minded, she must keep out of his company, 
because she knows the first thing will be a 
proposal of marriage, and if she doesn't ac- 
cept him she has it constantly thrown up to 
her "Why did you encourage me then?" 

Young men and women should seek each 
others company for the good they can derive 
from it and not always for the object of mat- 
rimony. And then if you see, through keep- 
ing company with this young lady, that you 
are in love with her, then is the time to think 
of marriage, not before. But be sure that it 
is love, not fancy or the effects of animal 
passion, because either of these can be mis- 
taken for love in the first place. 

If you are in love the spirit and the soul 
are united, and you are made a whole, you 
will see life as you have never seen it before. 
Everything will change, even to the stars at 
night, everything from the highest to the 
lowest form of nature will speak to you in a 
language that you were never before able to 
understand. Then before entering into mat 
rimony think of what there is at stake, think 
of what the undertaking of of this new life 
means. 

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Before you are a fit person to enter into 
this you should be pure, refined, high mind- 
ed, a man fit to bring forth a perfect offspring. 
Then you should be a man of means enough, 
or ways of obtaining means enough to bring 
up this perfect offspring and give them all 
the advantages that would be for their good. 
You should be a man capable of giving this 
offspring proper instructions so as to make a 
man or woman of them. A man or woman 
that would be a blessing to humanity, a bles- 
sing and a credit to you, their parents. You 
should be able to make that loved one, your 
wife, happy. She should be considered be- 
fore all things, you should be able to pay her 
proper attention. She deserves it. When 
she consents to be your wife, she stakes her 
life, her future happiness, and when you ask 
this of her, it is the same as acknowledging 
that you are capable of all these things, that 
you are worthy of this trust. 

When you enter into matrimony it should 

be a sign that you are a man of all theee 

qualifications. You are taking up one of 

God's greatest works and you should be able 

to perform it before attempting it. Not until 

then should you think of marriage. 

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A woman should also be capable of all 
these things. I have heard men say "I would 
like to get that girl. She would make a fine 
housekeeper " For shame, for shame, to 
such a man, to even call himself a man and 
want to get a wife simply for a housekeeper, 
to take a girl from a single and free life into 
the bondage of slavery, to want to make a 
machine out of his wife, to want her as a 
piece of property, to want to own her. 

Remember this, that when you marry a 
woman you are fooling with a human life, 
and if you make her life miserable so as to 
stop her progression you have the same as 
killed her. You will receive the bitter re- 
ward you merit. You will be ashamed to 
meet her in the spirit world. 

Marriage, above all things, should be 
considered carefully. It involves the lives 
of others. For the sake of humanity, hold it 
sacred. I once knew a low, filthy man, for 
such he must have been, judging from his 
his statement. There was a girl whose face 
was covered with pimples, the face was a 
solid eruption, and for years she had been 
trying to get rid of this but everything failed. 

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This man told her she should get married and 
this would all disappear and she would get 
all right. I asked him: "Why, so as to give 
this horrible disease to her offspring, to bring 
natural born cripples into the world, to re- 
plenish one of the highest creations of nature 
with filth and disease, from the beginning?' ' 
Now a man who did not think any more of 
human life than that did not deserve the name 
of man at all. 

Then you will hang a man for murder 
when born under those conditions, born with 
an evil nature, a diseased body and every- 
thing to tempt him. Some marry and bring 
offspring, a son, we will say, into poverty, 
bring him when he is an unwelcome child. 
He starves, life is a misery to him, he sees 
others around him with means, education, 
and all. What has he? Nothing, He is 
tempted, he steals, he has done wrong, and 
he must escape from the hands of the law. 
Soon he is cornered, he murders. Then he 
is caught, taken to trial, and sentenced to be 
hanged. He sits there imprisoned, no friends, 
no money, thinking of a wasted life, with the 
horrible words ringing in his ears, "You are 

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a murderer. " Oh, how terrible, what a sight, 
a human life in that condition! 

Then a mother or a father goes to bid 
their last farewell to their son, their own 
flesh and blood. He is to be hanged. He 
sits and thinks of church and what is said 
there. He thinks of what he has heard there 
that there is no redemption for a murderer. 
No there is nothing for him, either in this 
life or in the next. Oh, w T hat agony he must 
suffer! 

But if any of you have had a son who has 
passed this trial, take this, that although he 
has murdered, although he has committed 
one of the worst crimes possible, although 
he has stooped to the lowest, he is not lost, 
he is not dead, he still lives, he is in a hell; 
but sometime he will be redeemed. This re- 
demption takes time. There is no one lost, 
they are all redeemed. He is living under 
the laws of God, where all are willing to help 
him rise, he has left the law of the land, 
he is in the spirit world. Oh, what a beauti- 
ful thought! Only to think that we are all at 
some time saved from misery, instead of, be- 
cause we do wrong, being lost forever. For- 

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ever is a long time. Then say marriage is a 
small undertaking. Look around you, see 
the misery that comes from the one thing, 
marriage. 



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FEAR AND COURAGE. 



Fear is a source from what I call the 
devil. If you have anything to bear, never 
fear it; but walk inbo it with a brave mind. 
Fear comes from weakness, because it causes 
weakness, A man is just what he thinks. 
As a man thinketh so is he. Your thoughts 
protect you, they surround you as the light 
of the sun surrounds the planets. It is not 
the sun that protects us and the worlds. It 
is the light, the life, the power that comes 
from the sun. It is the power that comes 
from the mind that protects us in about the 
same way. 

You have a magnetic current which is gen- 
erated from your body, by your spirit, or by 
your thoughts which come from the spirit. 
Every thought sends a current of this mag- 
netism out of your body. If you strike a 
light you will see all around that light for a 
radius of about two feet, a mist like or a 
dense part of light. that stays always around 
it; but then it goes, scatters, and gives light 

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while other is replacing this; but it is in 
constant motion. There is a mist of thought 
current similar to that surrounding your 
body. 

Then if this thought current which is 
composed of magnetism, or soul power, is 
filled with fearful thoughts, in any way, or 
like this perhaps: "Bad luck always came 
to me and always will," "I have a deal to 
make tomorrow but I am afraid it w T on't end 
well," "I feel so stupid today I think I will 
be sick tomorrow. I never was very strong 
anyway," "The last dollar in my pocket-book 
is gone and I don't think there is any way of 
getting any more. Even if I try I always 
get the worst jobs in the country," etc. Now 
if that is your fearful thoughts, that is the 
kind of protection which surrounds you, and 
is all through you? If something good comes 
to you it meets opposition and just passes on 
as though you w r ere never in existence; but 
on the other hand, if something wrong comes 
along, it just passes in, you draw it to you, 
and soon you are distinguished for evil, or 
for bad luck. If you surround a light with 

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oxygen it will blaze up; but stop its source 
and soon the light goes out. 

Then, if your thoughts run in a good 
way, like all things good cpmes to you, you 
draw it in, it comes in like sticks in a whirl 
pool. How do your good thoughts draw the 
good, or your bad thoughts, the bad? These 
thoughts or this influence, spreads and goes 
everywhere and if it is bad and meets a man 
who is doing wrong, it influences him to come 
to you, if he sees you he sees that mist 
around you or rather feels it, and the first 
thing he says is: "Oh, he is easy.'' 

Then again, if a man intends to do good 
and comes in contact with you, that mist pen- 
etrates him and he thinks: "Why, I could 
cheat him. I will use him as a tool for my 
own good. Funny I didn't think of that be- 
fore;" but the reason is he never before came 
across your protection. 

If fear comes to you that something is 
going to happen to you that is for bad, it is a 
sure sign it is within your reach; all it needs 
is help to reach you. Then just begin to get 
frightened and it will come at the rate of 
sixty miles a minute, Soon it enters, you 

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have it, it belongs to you. If a desire creeps 
over you, that is a sign it is within your 
reach. All it needs is help. Think it is, and 
will be here soon, do not stop it by fear and 
it will come at the rate of speed that the bad 
used to come. 

If your protection is good, it catches all 
the good and draws it to you. It draws good 
people to you and if people come around you 
who wish to do wrong they feel the light. 
They feel that there is no use in fooling with 
you. If your protection comes in this man- 
ner, that you never were well and don't think 
you ever will be, it will lead you where there 
would be a chance to create disease, it will 
cause you to do everythiag that would be 
conducive to illness. 

Some people put their protection, or put 
into their protection certain signs such as, if 
you raise a parasol in the house someone is 
going to die, if it happens to be a strong one 
if it is allowed to run much on their mind it 
will bring about this disaster, it will lead 
someone into that house who would do some- 
thing that would cause death. Some people 
go to a fortune teller to get their fortunes 
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told, they are always willing to accept the 
good part of the fortune; but they never 
want to accept the bad. Why? It is an in- 
stinct that prompts you not to accept the bad, 
and there must be some reason for this 
prompting. The reason is this, that if you 
believe the bad and worry about it, it will 
lead that bad to you, or you to it. It does 
this every time. 

You see a man who knows he will come 
out all right, always does come out all right. 
He never fails unless some bad comes for a 
time in order to bring about the good. You 
may think this influence br protection is not 
as I explain it; but clairvoyants can see it. 
Spirits can see it. You ask: "How does a 
spirit know what is going to happen to me?" 
This is the way they tell. They come to you, 
they see this protection which surrounds 
you, they analyze it, and determine the 
things it will bring. Then they tell you. A 
clairvoyant can do this. He sees the condi- 
tions that are being brought. 

A clairvoyant can see what has happen- 
ed to you, so can a spirit by analyzing this 
influence and determining what has been 

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brought about. All of these things are in 
this influence, some it is drawing in, some it 
has just finished and in that way it makes a 
man as he thinks. 

So if you are in bad surroundings, change 
them at once. Never leave it till it is too 
late, never leave it till tomorrow or some 
future time when you shall have money that 
will bring your chance, and then change it. 
You will never get it until you do change 
your conditions. It is very seldom that a 
poor man gets rich, or a rich man poor. 



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WRINKLES WITH OLD AGE. 



I have stated several times, in former 
chapters, that persons born into this exist- 
ance should change their body of clay into 
one of magnetism, and that death, as it is 
known today, is not natural and should not 
be. Then you might say: "If we would 
live accord idg to nature as you say we would 
change our bodies into magnetism or into a 
magnetic body, and then of course, our 
children would be born with a body of that 
kind, and they wou]d not have to do that 
work of changing their bodies for more per- 
fect ones." But a magnetic body can not 
give birth to a child. Your mission of re- 
plenishing the earth would have already been 
fulfilled by the ' time you had your body 
changed to a magnetic one. 

Nature has provided us with what you 
might call two lives on this earth, or two 
stages of life. The first stage is to prepare 

for the next. The first stage of this life is to 

• 

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give birth to mortal or clay bodies; the sec- 
ond to give birth to magnetic bodies. 

Now, I will take the first stage of this 
life and give what I call the duties of that 
stage, and in order to do that I will divide 
the first stage into two parts, the first part, 
we will say, ends at about the age of twenty- 
five, perhaps younger or older; but we will 
estimate it at that, the second part of the 
first stage we will estimate ends at about the 
age of fifty. The work of the first part of the 
first stage would, or should be to make your- 
self pure, pure in mind, pure in body, with 
high and noble thoughts. You should, in 
that time, obtain a knowledge of life in all its 
forms, know something about yourself, what 
you came here for, and where you should go. 
You should, in that time, prepare yourself so 
as to be able to bring a perfect offspring into 
this existence; you should be able to support 
it as it should be supported, to teach it as it 
should be taught. You should be as perfect 
as you could be at the age of twenty-five- 
Then you are ready to take up the second 
part of the first stage. 

The duties of the second part of the first 
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stage are to give birth to your offspring, to 
teach them, take care of them, to see that 
they are a credit to humanity, to prepare 
yourself for the second stage. When you 
reach the age of forty -five or fifty you should 
be at your most beautiful time. You should 
be a beautiful man or woman in every way, 
be a person of strength and power, you 
should have a well developed spirit so that 
you could hear and see all people who came 
past you who were in the spirit world. You 
should be in such a condition that your spirit 
could have complete control over your body, 
so that you could know what it heard and 
saw, in fact, by that time you should be liv- 
ing partly in the spirit world. Then you are 
ready to enter the second stage in the right 
way. 

At about the age of forty-five most peo- 
ple go into what they call second child-hood 
or pass the change of life, and that is what I 
call the second stage of life. Then we will 
separate this second stage into two parts; but 
we can not estimate the number of years in 
each of these parts, as it would all depend 
upon the person. You have passed the time 

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of that. You know that at certain ages you 
are developed to take part in certain things; 
it then should depend upon yourself. 

Now the duty or work of the first part of 
the second stage is to get yourself ready to 
change, you should try and try, work with 
yourself until your body is between the clay 
ana magnetic and ready to change. After 
that is done you take up the second part of 
the second stage which is giving birth to the 
magnetic body. Then your mission here is 
fulfilled, you are ready to go into heaven; 
but not until. 

Now you may say that looks ridiculous 
and impossible; but it is not. It is all done 
with the mind. Some men will say : " Oh, 
I can't quit smoking ?" or chewing or drink- 
ing whichever the case may be. I don t ex- 
pect a man like that to do it, because he has 
not will power enough, he has not mind or 
perseverance enough ; but a man can do it 
and the other type I do not hardly consider a 
man. The word man means a great deal and 
it is very few of us that deserve that name. 
I am not and I do not think that many are; 
but let us strive for that, let us make our- 

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selves worthy of that name, which means or 
should mean so much. 

Now, if, at the change of life we were as 
we should be, there would be no wrinkles. 
The cause of w T rinkles is the loss of life, or 
magnetism. We instead of gaining soul 
power, lose it until we ossify. At first, our 
blood is heavily charged with that current, 
the blood runs through the body and fills out 
the flesh like water fills a sponge. Our flesh 
is composed of a spongy substance and filled 
out; but through violating nature's laws, we 
allow this current to Tun down and the circu- 
lation gets poor, the flesh wrinkles up and 
becomes dead, the magnetism expands and 
fills it out, but when, the current goes we 
begin to dwindle away and shrink to a solid 
mass. Our bones become solid and brittle. 
The result is we do not fill out the skin to its 
capacity, and it becomes wrinkled and con- 
tracted. 



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FOOD OF LIFE. 



.In a previous chapter I gave a little on 
what we should eat Not that I say unless 
you do eat these things, you cannot cultivate 
this power, because you can, that is. to some 
extent. You can, under any condition, culti- 
vate the magnetic force, or what I call the 
soul power; but in order to make it perfect 
you must eat properly and drink properly as 
well as think correctly. You can make this 
soul power great; but unless you live correct- 
ly you cannot make it so strong but that in 
time it will start on the downward path and 
at last come to such a low degree that the 
body begins to decay and in the end you are 
forced to return it to dust. 

They say a smoke that is the first smoke 
does not hurt any young man: but it leads to 
more. That is where the harm comes in. 
Then he begins to smoke steadily, at first 
that does not seem to injure his health in any 
way; but in time he begins to fail and soon 
he is a wreck. That is the way with eating 

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and drinking the wrong things. They do not 
seem to make much difference at first with 
the power of your magnetic force; but in 
time it begins to ebb away. So in order to 
make it complete and perfect, make it ever- 
lasting, make it so great that at last it con- 
sumes the flesh and turns it into soul. Let 
us live in every way as rightly as possible. 
For that purpose I will give a few sugges- 
tions on the kinds of food and the ways of life 
which I consider will act as a food for the 
life or magnetism, which is soul. 

In the first place we cook too much of 
our food. We kill the life in it by fire and 
when w 7 e kill the life in food, we kill the 
life in our bodies. There has, of late years, 
been such things as manufactured eggs, they 
taste exactly like the ordinary egg; but they 
will not hatch because there is no life there. 
They possess all the ingredients except life. 

Now in cooking an egg you kill the life 
in it, therefore I say eat fresh eggs uncooked, 
eat the life of the chicken instead of the dead 
clay after you have killed the life in it. Eat 
a great deal of fruit, fresh from the bushes 
or trees and then you eat the soul of that 

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fruit along with the clay parts. Of course, 
in winter you must cook it in order to pre- 
serve it; but when it is in season eat plenty 
of it. Do not wait until it stands picked for 
some time, if you can help it, because then it 
has lbst some of its magnetism Like a wilt- 
ed flower, it is not half so pretty after it has 
been picked for awhile, as it is at first. 
Drink plenty of fresh water, it is the fountain 
of life, it is filled with magnetism. Do not 
be afraid to use it, drink at least two quarts 
a day. 

Breathe plenty of fresh air, it is a fount- 
ain of life. I do not mean to stop eating 
cooked foods; but I say don't cook at all. 
Leave off meats altogether. Meat eating is 
the next thing to barbarism. Meat makes 
you quick tempered, coarse, vicious, and 
animal like in nature; something like the 
nature of a bear or lion. Meat gives you 
animal strength but not spiritual. Eat plenty 
of vegetables of all kinds both cooked and 
uncooked. 

Now these are but a very few things; but 
you can get plenty of books that will give 
you ways of living. Then there is one thing 

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that is taught by some physicians, one that 
drags down the soul power quicker than any- 
thing else, and that is an excess in sexual de- 
sires. 

Some physicians will tell you that that 
is necessary in order to be healthy. These 
teachings are perfectly rotten, even as rotten 
as the man who teaches them. They say it 
is an expression of love; but the love of man 
is supposed to come from a higher source 
than that and unless you are perfectly wil- 
ling to admit yourself equal to an animal do 
not say that this is an expression of your 
love. 

Then again they say it is nature. It is but 
not one of the best of nature's laws. There 
are other ways of using that power, higher 
ways, more progressive ways than that. It 
is not needed to promote health. It creates 
disease when used in such a corrupt and dis- 
graceful way. That is running down the 
creation of man. This and many other things 
are a great disadvantage to the soul and to 
the spiritual progression. 



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THE SPIRIT FOOD. 



We will often hear people say: "Well 
what in the world does the spirit live on, or 
does it need anything to live on?" Some say 
they do need something to live on, others say 
they do not. I do not think they need any- 
thing to live on: but they must have some- 
thing to progress on. That something is 
thought. What do we progress on except 
thought? We or our spirit is thought. Then 
our spirit must have thought to progress 
with; but pure ones. Then if pure thoughts 
are a progression, evil or impure ones are a 
downfall, or tend to degrade the spirit. 

So let our spirit feed upon the pure 
thoughts of our mind and let all others be 
cast away, throw them away to the winds for 
you w r ill reap the seeds you sow. 

Some say: "Now does it really hurt my 
spirit when I get drunk, or does the effects of 
tobacco hurt my spirit in any way or is it 
just my body that is harmed through these 
stimulants?" It seems strange, I know, to 

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some to think that a man of most any kind 
would not have sense enough of his own to 
reason such a thing out for himself. Any- 
thing that harms the body, harms the spirit, 
or else how in the world would your spirit 
ever get harmed? Your thoughts can never 
be pure with an impure body. And when 
your body becomes pure your thoughts will 
become pure and high, for if you sow good 
seeds the harvest will be good. 

When a man becomes so weak minded 
and so disgusted with himself that he will al- 
low his body to be intoxicated with stimu- 
lating liquors, he not only injures himself but 
injures his offspring by giving them an im- 
pure body to start out with. Therefore I say 
there should be a law against a man who 
drinks heavily enough to become intoxicated, 
from getting married. They say this is a 
free country; but I think there should be a 
preventative for bringing misery upon others. 

Then again, I have heard men say: "I 
am just as capable of thinking high and noble 
thoughts when I am smoking as when I am 
not." They are far from it. Their body be- 
comes poisoned through that filthy habit and 

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their nervous system becomes dulled, in a 
sense, becomes incapable of doing its work. 
The brain becomes dulled, in a sense, and in- 
capable of properly performing its work. 
The nerves, being dulled, stop the 
brain, in a way, from thinking things that 
are of a high and divine nature. It takes a 
brain of great activity to create these 
thoughts which should be created to strength- 
en the spirit or mind. Then again, through 
these stimulants, the nervous system is irri- 
tated, causing evil thoughts and low ones. 
If you feed your body with stimulating and 
low things, soon the body becomes formed 
from these things and a low unnatural body 
creates low and unnatural thoughts, which 
weaken the spirit. Then this irritation 
which is caused by these filthy habits, causes 
you to become, coarse and brutal instead of 
loving and refined. 

Another strengthening food for the spirit 
is faith. With faith there is nothing impos- 
sible. In all these things and in everything 
we do there must be faith or it amounts to 
nothing. When I tell people they must have 
faith they say: "If you had what I have to 

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put up with you wouldn't have much faith. " 
But why must they put up with all these 
things? Because they lack faith. Does God 
bring bad luck to them? No. Do I? No. 
Neither do you nor does anyone else but them- 
selves. Then they say: "Supposing you had 
faith that things would turn out well for you 
and then after awhile everything went 
against you?" But is that faith when you 
put if's and and's in it? That is just an imi- 
tation. Faith is composed of Shall and Will. 

Then if bad comes just keep the same 
determination Shall and Will, that the bad is 
for a good purpose and soon you will see that 
through that bad will be brought some good 
which never could have been brought about 
in any other way. Don't have bad. . It is all 
good. Have it that the bad is for a good 
purpose. 

Now you who believe in a personal God 
know that it is said in the Bible, "When you 
ask of me have faith and your prayers shall 
be answered." Why is that said? If I had 
the power to grant my child a request could 
I not do it? Could I not do it without that 
child's faith? Yes, most decidedly I could. 

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Then why does that man that you call God or 
Father, need your faith in order to grant your 
prayers? He says you must have it in order 
for them to be granted. Why is it, I would 
like to know, if it is not this, that you grant 
your own prayers? If a man up there could 
do it he would not Deed your faith. He could 
get along without that; but it is the God 
within you who does it and through your 
having faith that it shall be done, you cause 
your own power to do the work. 

Mind you, your faith is the propeling 
power. It sees that other things do their 
work. People will say: "Then you do not 
believe that an earnest prayer will be grant- 
ed?" Havel not said that I did? Could I 
say it plainer than I have? Only I say this, 
we grant our own prayers and that there is 
no one else to do it. 

At one time I was very religious. I was 
very young and believed in a man God who 
sat somewhere, I did not know where, he was 
an imaginary one, a dream to me, an unknown 
one, and one I never could learn; but through 
the ideas of others I believed that he was 
and that if I had faith he could and would 

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answer my prayers. At that time my mother 
was suffering from heart disease in a very 
bad state. One night, after two or three 
days' siege with it she grew worse and worse 
till at last her heart stopped. They all 
thought her dead but me. I went into the 
next room and offered up a prayer that would 
have touched the heart of Satan, and then 
with a determination and faith that could not 
be broken, a determination that she would 
get well, I went into her room, and although 
all thought her gone, I stood with a will of 
iron and in a few minutes she revived. 

Who did it? That unknown God I be- 
lieved in? No, I did it. No one else did it, 
and I did it with the God within me. People 
say: ''How do you know that the God you 
believed in did not do it?" This is how I 
know. At the present time I would as soon 
pray to a grave of dust as to that dream I 
prayed to then, I would have just as much 
faith in it as I would in that imaginary God. 
I would pray to my own God and what is 
more, I can do that same thing over again 
and so much greater things that that is not 
to be considered. Then how do I do it? I 

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don't ask any other God except my own for 
help and yet I do it. Then if I do it now I 
did it then. 

Why should we believe in that kind of a 
Go now because people did thousands of 
years ago? How do we know that the Bible 
came from God or that any of those people 
talked with God? Have w 7 e proved it? We 
have believed it thousands of years, we are 
just as poor as we ever were, we get sick just 
as often as we ever did, we get old as soon 
and sooner than we ever did, we all die the 
same as we always did. Then tell me what 
good it has done you. Does it do you any 
good here, or is it just your redemption you 
are working out for yourself in the next 
world. If it brings you nothing here how 
will it bring it there. You are here to pro- 
gress for there? Is it a progression when 
you die more feeble than you began? Then 
how do you know you are working out a sal- 
vation? Have you proved it or are you tak- 
ing someone else's word for it? 

Now it seems to me that we have grown 
up lopsided long enough, we have tried all 
this other with no avail. Let us try some- 

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thing new, something that we can prove for 
ourselves, for if God talked to people in old- 
en times, he will talk to us, for God is the 
same today, tomorrow, forever. 



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